The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

Each is but a means to an end; in the perfected end we find the intent, and there God — not in the laws themselves, except as his means of revealing himself. For that same reason, human science cannot discover God. For human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science, it works with its back to him, and is always leaving him — his intent.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.