Great Throughts Treasury

"The fundamental error commonly made lies in considering faith as a kind of knowledge... Faith, however, is not a kind of knowledge, but rather a practical attitude of will."

"Religion is about fellowship and community… The task of religion is the maintenance and extension of human community."

"In all enjoyment there is a choice between enjoying the other and enjoying yourself through the instrumentality of the other. The first is the enjoyment of love, the second is the enjoyment of lust. When people enjoy themselves through each other, that is merely mutual lust."

"The plainest historical evidence for the effectiveness of religion as a positive social form lies in the history of the Jews."