The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

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

Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!

love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

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