The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

Be grateful for whatever it is that opens you up.

Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

All animals go through interminable hard labor to produce what humans shamelessly rob from them at great physical/mental pain to them and to their young. THINK TWICE before using hot 'merchandise'!!!

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.