What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him.

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing