the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

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

To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.

Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.

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

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