In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

We worship God through our questions.

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.