Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends..

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion..

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined….

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed..

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else..

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence..

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world..

One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal….

There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious, had ….

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism..

The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will a….

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic proc….

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't..

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery..

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever..

You might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been the fate of certain types of Protestantism. Th….

The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. At least, nothing in the natural scene can arous….

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer..

I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action….

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer..

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love..