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

To pray well one must pray much.

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

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

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

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.

love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.