Child Of God, If You Would Have

The True Aim Of Every One Who Aspires To Be A Teacher Should Be, Not To Impart His Own Opinions,but To Kindle Minds.

It Is Not The Number Of Books You Read; Nor The Variety Of Sermons Which You Hear; Nor The Amount Of Religious Conversation In Which You Mix: But It Is The Frequency And The Earnestness With Which You Meditate On These Things, Till The Truth Which May Be In Them Becomes Your Own, And Part Of Your Own Being, That Ensures Your Spiritual Growth.

Two Thousand Years Ago There Was One Here On This Earth Who Lived The Grandest Life That Ever Has Been Lived Yet - A Life That Every Thinking Man, With Deeper Or Shallower Meaning, Has Agreed To Call Divine.

But If There Has Been On This Earth No Real, Perfect Human Life, No Love That Never Cooled, No Faith That Never Failed, Which May Shine As A Loadstar Across The Darkness Of Our Experience, A Light To Light Amidst All Convictions Of Our Own Meanness And All Suspicions Of Other's Littleness, Why, We May Have A Religion, But We Have Not A Christianity. For If We Lose Him As A Brother, We Cannot Feel Him As A Saviour.

... Religious Controversy Does Only Harm. It Destroys Humble Inquiry After Truth, And Throws All The Energies Into An Attempt To Prove Ourselves Right-a Spirit In Which No Man Gets At Truth.