Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

A good example has twice the value of good advice

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.