The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

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

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

Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

To pray well one must pray much.

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.