churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

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.

Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.

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

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

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

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