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

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

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

religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.

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

The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

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