Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.