Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests mainly, I believe, on failu….

a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors..

To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer..

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power..

the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods..

The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own..

... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!.

To pray well one must pray much..

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship..

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work..

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world..

love is always in danger of being sentimentalized..

religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticis….

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us..

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured..

The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology..

Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this..

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the ….

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history..

Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,'….

To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship..