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

The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.

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

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.

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.

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

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