It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.

To be is to stand for.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.

As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind. God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.