With faith that comes of self-control
The truths that never can be proved
Until we close with all we loved 
And all we flow from, soul in soul.

My father, who was a Hebrew scholar, told me that the word in the original is to be ‘silent unto,’ or before the Lord. – ‘They that are silent unto the Lord shall renew their strength.’

Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. 

All great things are born of silence.

[meditation] gives us no matter for criticism and doubt, but everything for wonder and for love.

[meditation] brings not an intense self-consciousness and spiritual egotism, but almost a renunciation of individuality, a mingling with the universe, a lapse of our little drop of existence into the boundless ocean of being.

So sometimes comes to soul and sense
The feeling which is evidence 
That very near about us lies
The realm of spiritual mysteries.

‘er I do, Thou dost not change.
I steadier step when I recall
That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall.

However far the human may be from the Divine, nothing on earth is nearer to God than man, nothing on earth more Godlike than man.