"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be