The spiritual man is free to rule his world, not his world to rule him. Ed.
The spiritual problem which Christ resolved 45 was pretty much this—the derivation of that from within man which was conceived to be above man, by the reperception of the forgotten truth that it was in His own image God made man. He first opened up the well within. Ed.
The spiritual universe is no more to be made out of a man's own head than the material universe or the moral universe.... No belief of ours will change the facts or reverse the laws of the spiritual universe. R. W. Dale.
The spiritual will always body itself forth in the temporal history of men; the spiritual is the beginning of the temporal, always determines the material. Carlyle.
The spiritual world is not closed; it is thy sense that is: thy heart is dead. Goethe.
The spring can be apprehended only while it is flowing. Goethe.
The springing of a serpent is from the sun; the wisdom of the serpent, whence is that? Ruskin.
The stars do not come to tell us it is night, 5 but to lay beams of light through it, and give the eye a path to walk in. Ward Beecher.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself / Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; / But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, / Unhurt amidst the war of elements, / The wrecks of matter and the crash of worlds. Addison.
The stars themselves are only bright by distance; go close, and all is earthy; but vapours illuminate there; from the breath and from the countenance of God comes light on worlds higher than they. Landor.