Do Not Be Eager For Things Above.

There Are Two Powers That Alone Can Effect In Their Conjunction The Great And Dificult Thing Which Is The Aim Of Our Endeavour, A Fixed And Unfailing Aspiration That Calls From Below And A Supreme Grace From Above That Answers.

Evolution Is Not Finished; Reason Is Not The Last Word Nor The Reasoning Animal The Supreme Figure Of Nature. As Man Emerged Out Of The Animal, So Out Of Man The Superman Emerges.

The Ascent To The Divine Life Is The Human Journey, The Work Of Works, The Acceptable Sacrifice. This Alone Is Man's Real Business In The World And The Justification Of His Existence, Without Which He Would Only Be An Insect Crawling Among The Ephemeral Insects On A Speck Of Surface Mud And Water Which Has Managed To Form Itself Amid The Appalling Immensities Of The Physical Universe.

The Atheist Is God Playing At Hide And Seek With Himself; But Is The Theist Any Other? Well, Perhaps; For He Has Seen The Shadow Of God And Clutched At It.

Many Of Us, Utterly Overcome By Tamas, The Dark And Heavy Demon Of Inertia, Are Saying Nowadays That It Is Impossible, That India Is Decayed, Bloodless And Lifeless, Too Weak Ever To Recover; That Our Race Is Doomed To Extinction. It Is A Foolish And Idle Saying. No Man Or Nation Need Be Weak Unless He Chooses, No Man Or Nation Need Perish Unless He Deliberately Chooses Extinction.