I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
“There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.”
“In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.”