Optimism is the essential condition of progress.
One is what one believes oneself to be. If one believes oneself to be an animal one becomes bestial; if one believes oneself spiritual one becomes Divine.
Faith is an effective force whose measure has never yet been taken.
Man is the creature of heredity and environment. He can only rise superior to circumstances by bringing God into environment of which he is conscious.
The recognition of God's presence upsets the balance of a man's environment, and means a new birth into a new life.
The faculties which perceive God increase with use like any other perceptive faculties.
Belief in God may be an illusion; but it is an illusion that pays.
If belief in God is illusion, happy is he who is deluded! He gains this world and thinks he will gain the next.
The disbeliever loses this world, and risks losing the next.
To be the centre of one's universe is misery. To have one's universe centred in God is the peace that passeth understanding.