Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.