The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.
The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.
while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.
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.
Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.
Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.