There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.