Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.