The principle of expediency expels all other principle.
Quiet lives are often eloquent.
The love of wealth steals wealth of love.
It's the common virtues that make uncommon saints.
Many a man is shouting his convictions to drown the voice of conscience.
A little learning is dangerous if you are planning to get to heaven by degrees.
When a man gets over anxious about the gnat it's time to hang on to the camel.
IX
THE PASSING AND PERMANENT
When the walls are being rebuilt it is easy to imagine that the foundations are being destroyed. Old creeds pass away, but truth remains; if they were true in their day they do but give place to the larger truth of the new day. We need to distinguish between the turmoil attendant to the process of building and the beauty of the new temple that arises.