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

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.

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.

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.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.