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

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

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.

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

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

churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.