“comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable”

“Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.”

“Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.”

“Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. ”

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

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

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