The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

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.

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.

That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.