Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this.

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

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.

To pray well one must pray much.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.