Between God and man, between the gospel and each soul, the interpreter is Love. - Alexandre Vinet

Our object to-day is to point out to you, brethren, that tendency we all have to consult another, in order to shun consulting ourselves.

Man feels in himself passions which ought to obey, and a reason which ought to command. But it is in vain: the war is endless; victory on either side is impossible. Neither can reason subdue the passions, nor can the passions put reason to silence. p. 17

The light of conscience ... enters the eyes of the soul, as the light of the sun enters the eyes of the body; and to open the former requires no greater effort than to open the latter.