Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ.

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.