“Gandhi once said, "I like your Christ. I don't like your Christians." Well, I love America. But there are too many hateful Americans.”

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

“How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your socialism and your American democracy are what you do each day, your manner of thinking each hour, of embracing your life companion and loving your child; they are your attitude of social responsibility towards your work, and your determination not to become like the crushers of life you so hate.”

“Your love for Christ is only as good as the love you have for the Christians you like the least”

“when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian.”

“Will you please translate your prices hereafter? I don't add too well in plain American, I haven't a prayer in ever mastering bilingual arithmetic.”