Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.