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 the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

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

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.

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.

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