Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.

It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.

The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.

Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.

There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.

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.

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.

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

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

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