The Feet Of The Humblest

Be Such A Man, And Live Such A Life, That If Every Man Were Such As You, And Every Life A Life Like Yours, This Earth Would Be God's Paradise.

It Is God's World Still. It Has Been Given To Man Not Absolutely, But In Trust, That Man May Work Out In It The Will Of God; Given-may We Not Say?-just As A Father Gives A Child A Corner Of His Great Garden, And Says, "there, That Is Yours; Now Cultivate It."

Wherever Souls Are Being Tried And Ripened, In Whatever Commonplace And Homely Way, There God Is Hewing Out The Pillars For His Temple.

There Are Two Ways Of Defending A Castle; One By Shutting Yourself Up In It, And Guarding Every Loop-hole; The Other By Making It An Open Centre Of Operations From Which All The Surrounding Country May Be Subdued. Is Not The Last The Truest Safety?

Distrust Your Religion Unless It Is Cheerful, Unless It Turns Every Act And Deed To Music And Exults In Attempts To Catch The Harmony Of The New Life.‎