Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.

Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.

Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men, and thus to make a reality of brotherhood. It must be used to abolish poverty, the breeding ground of all misery and crime, by distributing equably among men the abundance of the soil. And it must be used to get rid of war and to establish enduring peace. Here is the supreme test of the effectiveness of religion.

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.