Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

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

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

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

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

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.

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.