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In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.