Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child.

If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.

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

No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.

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

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

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.