نحن نجهل إلى أي العوالم يمضي بنا هذا الرسول الليلي حينما نستسلم له بعيون مغمضة وليس من يتكفل بفتحها في الغد ليعيدنا إلى يقظة العمر. لقد تعلق الإنسان … - Friedrich Max Müller

हे गंगा, यमुना, सरस्वती, शुतुद्रि, परुष्णी मेरी स्तुति स्वीकार करो। हे मरुद्वरीधा अस्किनी के साथ और हे अर्गिकीया सुशोमा के साथ, मेरी स्तुति सुनो। तुम त्रिस्तमा, ससर्तु, कुभा, गोमती, मेहत्नू तथा क्रमु आदि अपने दाएँ बहने वाली नदियों को साथ कर अपनी यात्रा पर निकल रही हो। यह सिन्धु अपनी जगमग शानदार जलप्रवाहों को इस विशाल भू भाग में इतनी तीव्रता से प्रवाहित होती चलती है, जैसे कोई सुन्दर घोड़ी जा रही हो।

Tell me some of your chief difficulties that prevent you and your countrymen from openly following Christ, and when I write to you I shall do my best to explain how I and many who agree with me have met them and solved them... From my point of view, India, at least the best part of it, is already converted to Christianity. You want no persuasion to become a follower of Christ. Then make up your mind to act for yourselves. Unite your flock, and put up a few folds to hold them together. The bridge has been built by you for those who came before you. Step boldly forward, it will not break under you, and you will find many friends to welcome you on the other shore, and among them none more delighted that you old friend and fellow labourer.

There will be and can be no rest till we admit, what cannot be denied, that there is in man a third faculty, which I call simply the faculty of apprehending the Infinite, not only in religion, but in all things; a power independent of sense and reason, a power in a certain sense contradicted by sense and reason; but yet, I suppose, a very real power, if we see how it has held its own from the beginning of the world — how neither sense nor reason has been able to overcome it, while it alone is able to overcome both reason and sense.