Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

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

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

Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this.

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

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.