Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.