“Wherever men are still theological there is still some chance of their being logical.”

“This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.”

“Some women can drink some men under the table, but a man under the table can still be dangerous.”

“In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.”

“wherever you go,wherever you live, still the stars up there will remain the same, as they were when we were together.”

“The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do, the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.[Essay entitled 'On Christianity', published posthumously]”