The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.
Men have never been individually self-sufficient.
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.