Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.
Josiah RoyceIf usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.
Josiah RoyceGod is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
Josiah RoyceSo, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
Josiah Royce