[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 ou… - John Campbell Shairp

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

We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest conviction. But we are called on to trust—to trust ourselves to God, being sure that He will lead us right—to keep close to Him—and to trust the promises which He whispers through our conscience; this we can do, and we ought to do.

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.