Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.