Events are influenced by our very great desires.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.