All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.

Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.