It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.

We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.