Where Science and Religion Meet

The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it: The moon is within me, and so is the sun. The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears canno...

The green leaf of the tree, the blade of the wheat that gives me bread—I look at them and tell myself, as many a man has told himself before, that if I could read their secrets...

We have followed the physicist and the chemist to the farthest point they have reached in their research. They cannot show us anything beyond, and we, unsatisfied, must look els...

The divergent streams of that primaeval fountain of life as they spread out upon the earth, in the earth, in the air, in, under and upon the waters, have given to it the endless...

If any one should care to say that unless I have bones and muscles and the other parts of the body I could not do what I would, that is well enough: but to say that I act as I d...

When the brain dies it is resolved in the ordinary way gradually, or may be resolved in a laboratory quickly, into its constituents, which the chemist may collect as water, carb...

And is this life but the child of death? Then blessed also be the word Death, the mother of life; I will no more call thee Marah, but Naomi; for thou art not bitter, but sweet;...

By the establishing of habit-memories in the nervous structures of man consciousness is liberated for another and, if the man will, a nobler use. The instrument may be forgotten...

The human animal desires to escape from its animal prison by means of all kinds of love, by freedom of emotion no less than of action and thought. And it attains to the freedom...

Without social life no one of the peculiarly human powers of a man comes to fruition. He may chatter, for example; he cannot speak. He has all the necessary organs and all the n...

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his...

Can you think at all and not pronounce heartily that to labour in knowledge is to build up Jerusalem, and to despise knowledge is to despise Jerusalem and her builders? _Blake._

The Christian has not escaped the dangers of the common lot. He too, despite his own contrary principles, has, from the beginning of the Christian Church, been tempted as we all...

Studying at its best the Christian view of the world of life—and it is not worth any man's while to study it at less—we find that Jesus Christ stands there always as greatest am...

_Aut Deus aut homo non bonus_—so Christians have said and believed. The dilemma, though comfortable for not a few among them, and having about it a certain truth, often involves...

Thy judgment is in the mute pain of sleepless love; In the blush of pure hearts; In the tears of the night of desolation; In the pale morning-light of forgiveness. _Rabindranath...

The Christian shows in his root principles, we are bound to confess, a profound sense of personality and of the relations of persons. That this comes of his relation to the Supr...

It is quite true that to be popular a religion must be corrupt. The fact is noted both by its critics and enemies and by its friends and devotees. They express their minds in di...

There is nothing said of man throughout all scripture but what supposes him to stand, in nature, under a necessity of choosing something that is natural, either life or death, f...

The gain or the loss of life—this is what the Christian religion calls us to face. Will you be a slave to the life you have and in the end lose it, or at least all that makes it...

Now whence was it that a religion, so serious in its restraints, so beautiful in its outward form and practices, and commanding such reverence from all that beheld it, was yet c...

For the Christian the barrier that finally checks the advance of life is not death but a self-concentrated self. It is freedom misused and lost, freedom turning against the life...