Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the common property of all thinking men. They must have something-something outside themselves, to make them feel life is worth living, that good rather than evil is the explanation of the world.

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.