I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.

The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.