Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained--in success--and its attainment is historically recorded. The religious goal remains, even in man's highest experiences, that which simply provides direction on the mortal way; it never enters into historical consummation.

It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

It pains me to speak of God in the third person.

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.