The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God. - John Campbell Shairp

There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.

[I]t is quite certain that if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and carry them out into act, the power of conscience would be so strengthened and improved within them, that it would soon become, what it evidently is intended to be, "a connecting principle between the creature and the Creator."

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?