Sumerian legends locate the land of Paradise, where the gods first blessed mankind with manners of civilized life, in Dilmun on the shore of the Persian Gulf.  —Harold Peake & Herbert John Fleure (1927)

Jesus did not demand that his followers believe in him or on him, but that they believe with him.  —Walter E. Bundy (1928)

The gist of the matter is this: God, as conceived by Jesus, receives and forgives the sinner, not for the purity of heart and life he has actually attained, but for that which he penitently and faithfully strives to attain.  —A. Campbell Garnett (1942)

You cannot put inward peace under a microscope. You cannot weigh a prayer. You cannot measure moral certainty.  —Edwin Lewis (1931)

The religion of the spirit leaves you free to follow truth whithersoever it may take you. —Ernest Fremont Tittle (1928)

Two inferior forms of hardihood have often appeared. One of them is Stoicism, the refusal to be crushed, the sense of an inner dignity which enables me to stand on my own feet, no matter what happens. A second or milder aspect is the habit of looking on the bright side. In everything one side is brighter than another. Let me turn my face in that direction. Before Jesus revealed the strength available through the fatherhood of God, these palliatives had value. But they are superficial and do not touch the sources of inner peace as do the words of Jesus.  —George Herbert Palmer (1930)

The first requisite, if we are to move away from the disturbing inequality which now prevails among us, is, once more, a change of attitude. We shall have, no doubt, to generate a new form of disgust—disgust at fortunes that are far beyond the levels of any conceivable human wants…. A maturely moral society will be one in which the very thought of large fortunes will elicit the same kind of disgust as is elicited by an act of boorishness or poor sportsmanship.  —H. A. Overstreet (1933)

A discouraged and downcast fellow, struggling with obstacles and fighting with failures, will often deliberately attribute all his misfortune and difficulties to some trifling mistake in his youth, or to some insignificant blunder or minor transgression in later life.
There recently came into our clinic a young man whose life was a perfect failure; he had contemplated suicide, but a friend urged him to come and see us. After an hour’s talk he was ready to go to work and he has continued to make rapid progress and satisfactory improvement…. In times of trouble and harassment, let us swell out our chests, breathe deeply, and face these trifling difficulties like men.  —William S. Sadler, M.D. (1914)

A great many of the educated youth of [the United States and Canada] … find it difficult to understand how a Church founded by Christ can show such feeble loyalty to the principles of truth, the way of life and the spirit of love to which His life was dedicated. Their very loyalty to the Christ of the Gospels often makes it difficult for them to be enthusiastically loyal to the Church which bears His name. —Rufus M. Jones (1932)

The value of science lies in its generalization and relation of fact to fact by means of which the mind builds a universe of sequences and connections, applying these generalizations to the needs of life…. The scientist, indeed, has no more right to be a materialist than an idealist. Neither of the foregoing presuppositions is scientific; both are philosophical.  —Ralph Tyler Flewelling (1926)