The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.