A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and animals be taken into man - why man himself, who is the peak of visible creation, should be denied the privilege of being assimilated into a higher power? The rose has no right to say that there is no life above it and neither has man, who has a vast capacity and unconquerable yearning for eternal life and truth and love.

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it is not yet ready to give up its sinfulness. Thus He will separate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff. Man's reaction to this Divine Presence will be the test: either it will call out all the opposition of egotistic natures, or else galvanize them into a regeneration and a resurrection.