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.

The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.

the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.