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

To pray well one must pray much.

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.

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

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

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

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!