September 10th.  O preposterous and vain man, thou who couldest not make a fingernail of thy body, thinkest thou to fashion this wonderful, mysterious, subtle soul of thine after the ineffable Image?  Wilt thou ever permit thyself to be conformed to the Image of the Son?  Wilt thou, who canst not add a cubit to thy stature, submit to be raised by the Type-Life within thee to the perfect stature of Christ Natural Law, p. 308.

September 11th.  Men will still experiment “by works of righteousness which they have done” to earn the Ideal life.  The doctrine of Human Inability, as the Church calls it, has always been objectionable to men who do not know themselves.  Natural Law, p. 309.

September 12th.  Let man choose Life; let him daily nourish his soul; let him forever starve the old life; let him abide continuously as a living branch in the Vine, and the True-Vine Life will flow into his soul, assimilating, renewing, conforming to Type, till Christ, pledged by His own law, be formed in him.  Natural Law, p. 312.

September 13th.  The work begun by Nature is finished by the Supernatural —­as we are wont to call the higher natural.  And as the veil is lifted by Christianity it strikes men dumb with wonder.  For the goal of Evolution is Jesus Christ.  Natural Law, p. 314.

September 14th.  The Christian life is the only life that will ever be completed.  Apart from Christ the life of man is a broken pillar, the race of men an unfinished pyramid.  One by one in sight of Eternity all human Ideals fall short, one by one before the open grave all human hopes dissolve.  Natural Law, p. 314.

September 15th.  I do not think we ourselves are aware how much our religious life is made up of phrases; how much of what we call Christian experience is only a dialect of the Churches, a mere religious phraseology with almost nothing behind it in what we really feel and know.  Pax Vobiscum, p. 12.

September 16th.  The ceaseless chagrin of a self-centred life can be removed at once by learning Meekness and Lowliness of heart.  He who learns them is forever proof against it.  He lives henceforth a charmed life.  Pax Vobiscum, p. 29.

September 17th.  Great trials come at lengthened intervals, and we rise to breast them; but it is the petty friction of our everyday life with one another, the jar of business or of work, the discord of the domestic circle, the collapse of our ambition, the crossing of our will or the taking down of our conceit, which makes inward peace impossible.  Pax Vobiscum, p. 28.

September 18th.  There are people who go about the world looking out for slights, and they are necessarily miserable, for they find them at every turn—­especially the imaginary ones.  One has the same pity for such men as for the very poor.  They are the morally illiterate.  They have had no real education, for they have never learned how to live.  Pax Vobiscum, p. 31.