The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.