People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

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

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

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.