Great Throughts Treasury

"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit."

"The differences in human life depend, for the most part, not on what men do, but upon the meaning and purpose of their acts... Wisdom about life consists in taking the inevitable ventures which are the very stuff of common existence, and glorifying them."

"Defensible agnosticism is that of the person who admits that he does not know, and is consequently open to learning."

"Religion does not always make life better, but not often does it fail to make life different."

"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations."

"If the world is really the medium of God’s personal action, miracle is wholly normal."

"The notion that one opinion is as good as another will not work in any other area of human experience, why should it work in the area of faith?"

"The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible."

"We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief."

"The mind becomes like that on which it feeds."

"The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced. "