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.

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 sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

To pray well one must pray much.

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests mainly, I believe, on failure to distinguish between a symbol and a definition.

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.