Up, up, my boys, we are sure to win!
Up boys, and put yourselves to the task! If you can do that, I am sure we will be able to do much in future.
Today God is being abandoned by the world because He does not seem to be doing enough for the world. So they say, "Of what good is He?" Shall we look upon God as a mere municipal authority?
The Knower can never be expressed; it is as when a grain of salt drops into the ocean, it is at once merged in the ocean.
Knowledge is mere classification. When we find many things of the same kind we call the sum of them by a certain name and are satisfied; we discover "facts", never "why". We take a circuit in a wider field of darkness and think we know something! No "why" can be answered in this world; for that we must go to God.
If I give them tit for tat, it would bring us down to a level with them. Tell them that truth will take care of itself, and that they are not to fight anybody for me. They have much to learn yet, and they are only children. They are still full of foolish golden dreams — mere boys!
Tell my friends that a uniform silence is all my answer to my detractors.
The seed must be a living seed, and the field must be ready ploughed; and when both these conditions are fulfilled, a wonderful growth of genuine religion takes place.
To convey such an impulse to any soul, in the first place, the soul from which it proceeds must possess the power of transmitting it,as it were, to another; and in the second place, the soul to which it is transmitted must be fit to receive it.