Whither should we aim if not towards God?
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.
If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine in himself and the realization of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aim possible to man on earth.
Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.