It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it.

The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension of the intimate, usable power of God is growing among us, and a growing recognition of the only worth-while application of that power-in the improvement of the world.

The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period - has passed with the means of prompt ignition; the matchbox has freed the housewife from that incessant service, but the feeling that women should stay at home is with us yet.

To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.