To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.