I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.