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.

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.

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

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.

I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

It's not big," Veck said, "but it's flawless. That was important to me. I wanted to give you something...flawless

The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Fortunately, Hollywood is open to change. It's just a question of how to go about doing it.

I was young enough to certainly realize the excitement of how popular 'Seinfeld' was.