Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

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.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.