All known existence points beyond itself..

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father..

We misjudge anybody who's different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That's their chief offense, but there are….

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh..

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men….

I think that when we believe that something is right, there's a serious ambivalence about it. On one hand, you say, because it's right, it must be vi….

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes com….

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion..

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously..

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint….

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge..

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning..

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism..

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sov….

If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion..

The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion..

Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual ….

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't und….

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every a….

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism..

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream..