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

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

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!

God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid.

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.