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.

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.

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 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.

Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.

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