God and humanity are not defeated by the hot assaults
of the Devil, but by the slow, crushing, glacier-like mass of
thousands and thousands of indifferent nobodies. God's causes are
never destroyed by being blown up, but by being sat upon. It is not
the violent and anarchical whom we have to fear in the war for human
progress, but the slow, the staid, the respectable; and the danger of
these lies in their real skepticism. Though it would abhor
articulately confessing that God does nothing, it virtually means so
by refusing to share manifest opportunities for serving Him."

Feeble and devious as my own footsteps have been since my decision to
follow Jesus Christ, I believe more than ever that this is the only
real adventure of life. No step in life do I even compare with that
one in permanent satisfaction. I deeply regret that I did not take it
sooner. I do not feel that it mattered much whether I chose medicine
for an occupation, or law, or education, or commerce, or any other way
to justify my existence by working for a living as every honest man
should. But if there is one thing about which I never have any
question, it is that the decision and endeavour to follow the Christ
does for men what nothing else on earth can. Without stultifying our
reason, it develops all that makes men godlike. Christ claimed that it
was the only way to find out truth.

To me, enforced asceticism, vows of celibacy, denunciation of
pleasures innocent in themselves, intellectual monopoly of
interpretation of things past or present, written or unwritten, are
travesties of common sense, which is to me the Voice within. Not being
a philosopher, I do not classify it, but I listen to it, because I
believe it to be the Voice of God. That is the first point which I
have no fear in putting on record.

The extraordinary revelations of some Power outside ourselves leading
and guiding and helping and chastening are, I am certain, really the
ordinary experiences of every man who is willing to accept the fact
that we are sons of God. Only a child, however, who submits to his
father can expect to enjoy or understand his dealings. If we look into
our everyday life we cannot fail to see that God not only allows but
seeks our cooperation in the establishment of His Kingdom. So the
second fundamental by which I stand is the certainty of a possible
real and close relationship between man and God. Not one qualm assails
my intellect or my intuition when I say