Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses, the ability to harmonize conflicting impulses in our own life and in society, and the capacity to choose adequate means for approved ends.

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.