Great Throughts Treasury

"Piety is unity, and the final proof that we have really found God is that all the discordant elements in our life fall into place and we are at peace."

"Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain."

"The little that we know of God seems so precious that we grasp it as if it were the whole. We set up our narrow standards and build our protecting bulwarks to guard what we have won against the mutation of the years. And we forget that God is the living God, everywhere present, in the changing as in the permanent; in the future as in the past and in the present."

"When we ask poets and artists to tell us what they have found in God, they answer with one voice, “We have found him in beauty. Only it is a beauty that never was on land or sea, a beauty that in its transcendent excellence makes our best handiwork seem tawdry.”"

"It is the sense of boundless possibilities in man which justifies faith in personal immortality."

"You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."