Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief tha… - William James

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

The life of religion consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

Between twenty and thirty I gradually became more and more agnostic and irreligious, yet I cannot say that I ever lost that 'indefinite consciousness' which Herbert Spencer describes so well, of an Absolute Reality behind phenomena.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he tried and failed.