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

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

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

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.

To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.