If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.