“Science was tearing through the ‘fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs’.”

A man got up [after one of Huxley’s ‘sermons’] and said ‘they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before’.

With science’s truths the only accessible ones.

Dissolving the dross which had ‘encrusted’ Christianity ‘in the days of ignorance and superstition’.

Never ‘did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little’.

It invited new ways of thinking.

It demanded a new rationale for belief.

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion.

a world of evolution ‘and unchanging causation’.

We are living in an inspiring and unimaginably large universe.

You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around.

I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions.

The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.

Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.

It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.

Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.