To pray well one must pray much.

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!

To pray well one must pray much.

love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.

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

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.

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