Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ is all the God we know.

The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work which God assigns to all.

No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.

The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.

Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture, Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.