Change What Cannot Be Accepted

Life Is A Battle Between Faith And Reason In Which Each Feeds Upon The Other, Drawing Sustenance From It And Destroying It.

The Pretensions Of Final Truth Are Always Partlyan Effort To Obscure A Darkly Felt Consciousness Of The Limits Of Human Knowledge.

When A Church Reaches Up Beyond Its Group And Tries To Enforce Its Standards Upon A Society That Doesn't Accept These Standards, And Perhaps For Good Reason, Perhaps For Bad Reason, But Anyway This Is The Problem We Face In Pluralistic Society, That Not Necessarily Every Standard That Every Church Tries To Enforce Upon The Society Is From The Society's Standpoint A Good Standard.

My Personal Attitude Toward Atheists Is The Same Attitude That I Have Toward Christians, And Would Be Governed By A Very Orthodox Text: "by Their Fruits Shall Ye Know Them." I Wouldn't Judge A Man By The Presuppositions Of His Life, But Only By The Fruits Of His Life. And The Fruits - The Relevant Fruits - Are, I'd Say, A Sense Of Charity, A Sense Of Proportion, A Sense Of Justice. And Whether The Man Is An Atheist Or A Christian, I Would Judge Him By His Fruits, And I Have Therefore Many Agnostic Friends.

Human Beings Are Just Good Enough To Make Democracy Possible...just Bad Enough To Make It Neccessary.