January 11th.  No single fact in Science has ever discredited a fact in Religion.  Natural Law, Introduction, p. 30.

January 12th.  I shall never rise to the point of view which wishes to “raise” faith to knowledge.  To me, the way of truth is to come through the knowledge of my ignorance to the submissiveness of faith, and then, making that my starting-place, to raise my knowledge into faith.  Natural Law, Introduction, p. 28.  Quotation from Beck:  Bib.  Psychol.

January 13th.  If the purification of Religion comes from Science, the purification of Science, in a deeper sense, shall come from Religion.  Natural Law, Introduction, p. 31.

January 14th.  With the demonstration of the naturalness of the supernatural, scepticism even may come to be regarded as unscientific.  And those who have wrestled long for a few bare truths to ennoble life and rest their souls in thinking of the future will not be left in doubt.  Natural Law, Introduction, p. 32.

January 15th.  The religion of Jesus has probably always suffered more from those who have misunderstood than from those who have opposed it.  Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 67.

January 16th.  It is impossible to believe that the amazing successions of revelations in the domain of Nature, during the last few centuries, at which the world has all but grown tired wondering, are to yield nothing for the higher life.  Natural Law, Introduction, p. 32.

January 17th.  Is life not full of opportunities for learning love?  Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them.  Greatest Thing in the World.

January 18th.  What is Science but what the Natural World has said to natural men?  What is Revelation but what the Spiritual World has said to Spiritual men?  Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 73.

January 19th.  Life depends upon contact with Life.  It cannot spring up out of itself.  It cannot develop out of anything that is not Life.  There is no Spontaneous Generation in religion any more than in Nature.  Christ is the source of Life in the Spiritual World; and he that hath the Son hath Life, and he that hath not the Son, whatever else he may have, hath not Life.  Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 74.

January 20th.  It is a wonderful thing that here and there in this hard, uncharitable world, there should still be left a few rare souls who think no evil.  Greatest Thing in the World.

January 21st.  The physical Laws may explain the inorganic world; the biological Laws may account for the development of the organic.  But of the point where they meet, of that strange borderland between the dead and the living, Science is silent.  It is as if God had placed everything in earth and heaven in the hands of Nature, but reserved a point at the genesis of Life for His direct appearing.  Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 69.

January 22d.  Except a mineral be born “from above”—­from the Kingdom just above it—­it cannot enter the Kingdom just above it.  And except a man be born “from above,” by the same law, he cannot enter the Kingdom just above him.  Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 72.