My friends will look upon it with astonishment, and probably use the common epithets, delusion, fanaticism, and blindness.

But so I wish to appear to minds like theirs; otherwise this would be unsatisfactory to me.

Men call that superstition which they have not the feeling to appreciate, and that fanaticism which they have not the spiritual perception to perceive.

The Protestant world admires, extols, and flatters him who will write and speak high-sounding and heroic words; who will assert that he will follow truth wherever it leads, at all sacrifices and hazards; but no sooner does he do so than it slanders and persecutes him for being what he professed to be.

Verily it _has_ separated faith from works.
"This is a heavy task; it is a great undertaking, a serious, sacred, sincere, and solemn step; it is the most vital and eternal act, and as such do I feel it in all its importance, weight, and power.