When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.