Great Throughts Treasury

"Peace at any price can be the abnegation of morality entirely, the refusal of even a negative contribution to righteousness."

"War is the greatest of all the awful and complex moral situations of the world - second only to the final judgment day… It is a moral pestilence. It is wrong on both sides."

"Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us."

"Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking – with a will. . . . It is energy. We turn to an active Giver; therefore we go into action."

"Is a mediator between the eternal spirit and the finite an unreality, an intrusion? The mystic soul may impatiently think so, but the moral soul finds such mediation the way to reality; and the mystic experience is not quite trustworthy about reality. The pagan gods had no mediators, because they were not real or good gods; but the living God has a living Revealer."

"You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them"

"We touch the last reality directly in prayer."

"The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master. "