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

The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.

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.

It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary

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

The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

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.

In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

He should probably make love to her.

We are like guests on this Earth, either we get to be nice or we get to be bad

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.

My gast was pretty well flabbered.

This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?

I just go out and play.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.