We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next

When its followers trust in violence or coercion to defend a religion, they sabotage their belief-system's global credibility by showing the world that their faith is too weak to stand on its own merits.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian

Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble