No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause, the face of day darkened with the blackness of the crimes perpetrated in its name.

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.