We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.