For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.

They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.