I am more convinced than ever that our generation understands Christianity in a way that is too extrinsic and too individualistic.
We must give [people] a Gospel in which moral teaching and the precepts of Christ are presented not simply as the guarantees of an individual reward, but as the road organically essential to the collective success of the whole of life.
Each and every one of us, if we care to observe it, is enveloped—is haloed—by an extension of his being as vast as the universe.
Supernaturalized man’s first duty, both to himself as an individual and as an apostle to others, is so to make use of created things as to develop in himself, for Christ, a vigorous self. His first care—similar, though only apparently, to that of the pagan—must be to use human effort to extend in every direction that leads to spirit the still unfinished work of visible creation.