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Strong reasons make strong actions.

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He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

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To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.

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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

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Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

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Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.

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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

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Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

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Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

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