Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

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

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

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

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.

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