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.
love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.
while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.
One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.