When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.