A community whose life is not irrigated by art and science, by religion and philosophy, day upon day, is a community that exists half alive. Faith for Living (1940)
...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. Faith for Living (1940)
Man's chief purpose...is the creation and preservation of values: that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life. Faith for Living (1940)