Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious, had a religion of their own in my youth. These were liberals who believed in the idea of progress or they were Marxists. Both of these secular religions have broken down.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.