Man does not know himself truly except as he knows himself confronted by God. Only in that confrontation does he become aware of his full stature and… - Reinhold Niebuhr

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

However much human ingenuity may increase the treasures which nature provides for the satisfaction of human needs, they can never be sufficient to satisfy all human wants; for man, unlike other creatures, is gifted and cursed with an imagination which extends his appetites beyond the requirements of subsistence.

Extreme orthodoxy betrays by its very frenzy that the poison of skepticism has entered the soul of the church; for men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken. Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring doubt.