while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

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

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 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.

The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

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

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