Life alone can rekindle life.

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical phrase "ye are gods," and so would St. Paul, who tells us that we are of "the race of God." Our century wants a new theology - that is to say, a more profound explanation of the nature of Christ and of the light which it flashes upon heaven and upon humanity.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.