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

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

Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!

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

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

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

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.