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

churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

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

... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

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

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