Whatever Our Creed, We Stand

A Rattlesnake, If Cornered Will Become So Angry It Will Bite Itself. That Is Exactly What The Harboring Of Hate And Resentment Against Others Is -- A Biting Of Oneself. We Think We Are Harming Others In Holding These Spites And Hates, But The Deeper Harm Is To Ourselves.

The Purpose Of Religion Is Not So Much To Get Us Into Heaven, Or To Keep Us Out Of Hell, But To Put A Little Bit Of Heaven Into Us, And Take The Hell Out Of Us. This Has Always Been The Greatest Responsibility Of Religion.

We Are Personalities In The Making, Limited, And Grappling With Things Too High For Us. Obviously We, At Very Best, Will Make Many Mistakes, But These Mistakes Need Not Be Sins.

To Pass From Estrangement From God To Be A Son Of God Is The Basic Fact Of Conversion. That Altered Relationship With God Gives You An Altered Relationship With Yourself, With Your Brother Man, With Nature, With The Universe.

An Hour Spent In The Presence Of God Brings The Purest Joy Known To Man.