Albert Pike Quotes - Page 4

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery , and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten.

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

All religious expression is symbolism.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.

We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.

Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.

The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.