Ultimately Evil Is Done Not So Much

Our Dreams Of Bringing The Whole Of Human History Under The Control Of The Human Will Are Ironically Refuted By The Fact That No Group Of Idealists Can Easily Move The Pattern Of History Toward The Desired Goal Of Peace And Justice. The Recalcitrant Forces In The Historical Drama Have A Power And Persistence Beyond Our Reckoning.

The Tendency To Claim God As An Ally For Our Partisan Value And Ends Is The Source Of All Religious Fanaticism.

I Think That The Christian Faith Is Right As Against Simple Forms Of Secularism. That It Believes That There Is In Man A Radical Freedom, And This Freedom Is Creative But It Is Also Destructive. And There's Nothing That Prevents This From Being Both Creative And Destructive.

Nothing We Do, However Virtuous, Can Be Accomplished Alone; Therefore We Are Saved By Love.

All This Talk About Atheistic Materialism And God-fearing American I Think Is Beside The Point; It's A Rather Vapid Form Of Religion.