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

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.

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.

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

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.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

You know because you’ve been it, and I know because I’m dead and it gives one such a wonderfully uncluttered perspective.

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.

When I finally realized that I didn't want to be a butch, I wanted to sleep with a butch, a whole new world opened up before my eyes.

I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.