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

... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

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

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.

To pray well one must pray much.

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

Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.