Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.