Nothing Natural Can Be Wholly Unworthy.

... [a] Girl One Day Flared Out And Told The Principal "the Only Mission Opening Before A Girl In His School Was To Marry One Of Those Candidates [for The Ministry]." He Said He Didn't Know But It Was. And When At Last That Same Girl Announced Her Desire And Intention To Go To College It Was Received With About The Same Incredulity And Dismay As If A Brass Button On One Of Those Candidate's Coats Had Propounded A New Method For Squaring The Circle Or Trisecting The Arc.

A Stream Cannot Rise Higher Than Its Source.

Agnosticism Has Nothing To Impart. Its Sermons Are The Exhortations Of One Who Convinces You He Stands On Nothing And Urges You To Stand There Too.

Life Must Be Something More Than Dilettante Speculation.

... Religion (ought To Be If It Isn't) A Great Deal More Than Mere Gratification Of The Instinct For Worship Linked With The Straight-teaching Of Irreproachable Credos. Religion Must Be Life Made True; And Life Is Action, Growth, Development--begun Now And Ending Never.