Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests mainly, I believe, on failure to distinguish between a symbol and a definition.

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.

a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this.

To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.