• Love is the desire to do good to others.
  • Fatherly love has singleness of purpose, and it always looks for the best in man; that is the attitude of a true parent.
  • If you engage in effective praying, you must make a wholehearted choice of the divine will. You must obliterate the dead center of indecision.
  • Every time man makes a reflective moral choice, he immediately experiences a new divine invasion of his soul.
  • Fatherly love has singleness of purpose, and it always looks for the best in man...
  • The consciousness of a victorious human life on earth is born of that creature faith which dares to challenge each recurring episode of existence when confronted with the awful spectacle of human limitations, by the unfailing declaration: Even if I cannot do this, there lives in me one who can and will do it...
  • The sincere pursuit of goodness, beauty, and truth leads to God
  • You must make a wholehearted choice of the divine will. You must obliterate the dead center of indecision
  • Without God, neither freedom and liberty, nor property and wealth will lead to peace.
  • The portal of eternity opens only in response to the freewill choice of the freewill sons of the God of free will.
  • Man is not saved or ennobled by pressure...Spiritual growth is greatest where all external pressures are at a minimum.
  • Trust is the crucial test of will creatures. Trustworthiness is the true measure of self-mastery, character.
  • Human things must be known in order to be loved, but divine things must be loved in order to be known.
  • Your only assurance of a personal God consists in your own insight as to your belief in, and experience with, things spiritual.
  • A misguided conscience can become responsible for much conflict, worry, sorrow, and no end of human unhappiness
  • The true believer does not grow weary in well-doing just because he is thwarted. Difficulty whets the ardor of the truth lover, while obstacles only challenge the exertions of the undaunted kingdom builder.
  • Is courage -- strength of character --is desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments.
  • Religious faith is available alike to the learned and the unlearned.
  • You must qualify as a potent prayer by sincerely and courageously facing the problems of universe reality. You must possess cosmic stamina.
  • Your actual achievement is not so important as the fact that the direction of your progress is Godward.
  • Truly educated persons are not satisfied with remaining in ignorance of the lives and doings of their fellows.
  • What you begin in time you will assuredly finish in eternity -- if it is worth finishing.
  • No act of good is ever wholly lost; it may be long thwarted but never wholly annulled, and it is eternally potent in proportion to the divinity of its motivation.
  • You can cultivate gracefulness, but graciousness is the aroma of friendliness which emanates from a love-saturated soul.
  • Truth is living; the Spirit of Truth is ever leading the children of light into new realms of spiritual reality and divine service
  • An effective philosophy of living is formed by a combination of cosmic insight and the total of one’s emotional reactions to the social and economic environment.
  • Of all the dangers which beset man's mortal nature and jeopardize his spiritual integrity, pride is the greatest. Courage is valorous, but egotism is vainglorious and suicidal.