“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”

“Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.”

“A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.”

“Salvation can be attained only through pure and unsullied love of God (combined with knowledge of His greatness).”

“Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker.”

“Thus the universe is to be conceived as attaining the active self-expression of its own variety of opposites of its own freedom and its own necessity, of its own multiplicity and its own unity, of its own imperfection and its own perfection. All the opposites are elements in the nature of things, and are incorrigibly there. The concept of God is the way in which we understand this incredible fact that what cannot be, yet is.”

“A goal can only be reached if the means are in consonance with its essential nature. One will never attain non-violence through violence.”

“A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”

“Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.”

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”