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

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

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.

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.

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

The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.