O soul thou pleasest me, I thee,
Sailing these seas or on the hills, or waking in the night,
Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and
Death, like waters flowing,
Bear me indeed as through the regions infinite,
Whose air I breathe, whose ripples hear, lave me all over,
Bathe me O God in thee, mounting to thee,
I and my soul to range in range of thee.

- WALT WHITMAN, (1819-1892)

"Walt Whitman, was the son of a Quaker father and deeply spiritual mother. ...Whitman believed his country's destiny was to be found in a rediscovery of the religious spirit." - The Book of Uncommon Prayer, edited by Constance and Daniel Pollock, p.188

"Prayer is a force as real as terrestial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength."

-ALEXIS CARREL (1873-1944) French surgeon, biologist, and Nobel laureate

"Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be a new feeling and a new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education."

- FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1821-1881) Russian novelist, from The Brothers Karamazov

"The God of the Christians is a God who makes the soul feel that He is her only good, that her only rest is in Him, that her only delight is in loving Him; and who makes her at the sme time abhor the obstacles which keep her back, and prevent her from loving God with all her strength."

BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662), French scientist and philosopher, from "Pensées"

“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
C.S. Lewis

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be."

-ABRAHAM MASLOW (1808-1970), American psychologist, the 'father' of humanistic psychology.

"Christianity's roots were small and humble - an itinerant rabbi preached and did miracles for three and a half years around the countryside of subjugated Israel. And today there are more than 1.8 billion professing believers in Him in most of the nations on earth!....

Emperors and governors were the men with power in Christ's day.... They have no followers today. No one worships them. No one serves them or awaits their bidding."

-D. JAMES KENNEDY (1930-) Presbyterian clergyman and founder, Coral Ridge Ministries, From "What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?"