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 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 principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

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!

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

love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.