When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.

If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.

For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character

Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things...No one can ever deny others the right to ignore the supersensible, but there is never any legitimate reason for people to declare themselves authorities, not only on what they themselves are capable of knowing, but also on what they suppose cannot be known by any other human being.

Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

To understand the nature of love — that is to be a Christian!