History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.

Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.

Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and good-will into their relations.

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive.