"We all of us try to make God in our image. It is one of the worst of our temptations."

"In this world death has a habit of intervening before we can pay our debts, and the only thing to be done is to pay t…"

"A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it."

"There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom."

"For unbelief was easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to b…"

"Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition."

"There was something disruptive about Christmas and not only in the merely material way. The original Christmas had pr…"

"The human desire to be understood is never quite sincere. It is on our own terms that we desire to be understood, not…"

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."