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“Countée Cullen's chief problem has been that of reconciling a Christian upbringing with a pagan inclination. His life so far has not convinced him that the problem is insoluble.”

A wry self-portrait of faith set against appetite and classical feeling · Third-person biographical note, Caroling Dusk, 1927

“Three times blessed be the counsel that has come to me.”

Original: Trois fois béni soit le conseil qui m’est arrivé! — The line captures a moment of apparent relief amid Rimbaud’s larger account of spiritual crisis. · A Season in Hell, Night in Hell, 1873 (French)

“Believing is hanging on to what one supports.”

Original: Croire c'est se suspendre à ce que l'on soutient. — Belief is depicted as a reciprocal relationship in which the believer depends upon what they believe. · Cahiers (French)

“Faith is destined to disappear, whereas charity will never pass away.”

Original: La foi est destinée à disparaître, tandis que la charité ne passera jamais. — Valéry distinguishes belief from enduring human compassion and generosity. · Études Bergsoniennes (French)

“Each one of us is a needed part of His great plan. Let each soul say: He has need of me or I would not be.”

A strong affirmation of individual worth and belonging · Essay, Thought Force

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“You can do it by the aid of the Spirit, but you must be satisfied to work slowly.”

Balancing spiritual faith with patience and effort · Essay, The Sowing of the Seed

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The body and material conditions can be dominated by the divine spirit in man.”

Expressing a central New Thought belief about spiritual agency · Essay, Self-Conquest

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The reverent, wholesome, and beautiful religion of New Thought must be grown into little by little, through patience, faith, and practice.”

Emphasising gradual development rather than instant conversion · Essay, Self-Conquest

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“He must illustrate this love and trust by his daily conduct, and in his home circle, and in his business relations.”

Insisting that beliefs must be demonstrated through conduct · Essay, Self-Conquest

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“It is an insult to the Opulent Creator to suppose you will suffer want and poverty if you help those who are in temporary misfortune.”

Framing generosity as an expression of trust rather than fear · Essay, Generosity

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Let no man lean on anyone save God and his own divine self.”

Advocating spiritual and personal self-reliance · Essay, Generosity

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“He who trusts the divine Source of Life, shall find his hopes more than realized here upon earth.”

Combining spiritual trust with an optimistic expectation of fulfilment · Essay, Optimism

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“It is God's own thought put into practical form.”

Describing her preferred spiritual philosophy as something meant to be lived · Essay, A Worn Out Creed

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“There is a divine purpose in your being on earth.”

Affirming that individual existence has meaning · Essay, Thought Force

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The Creator makes no mistakes.”

A succinct expression of her confidence in divine purpose · Essay, Thought Force

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Each one of us is a needed part of His great plan.”

Affirming the significance of every individual · Essay, Thought Force

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“There is no revenge in God's mind.”

Rejecting a conception of divine justice based on revenge · Essay, Thought Force

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Believe absolutely in your own God-given power to overcome anything and everything.”

An emphatic expression of her faith in personal resilience · Essay, Obstacles

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Do not tell me it is too late to be successful or happy. Do not tell me you are sick or broken in spirit, the spirit cannot be sick or broken, because it is of God.”

A forceful rejection of hopelessness and the idea that happiness has an expiry date · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The really reverent soul accepts its sorrows as blessings in disguise.”

Presenting adversity as capable of deepening the individual · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“He who in truth trusts God cannot worry.”

Expressing her conviction that genuine faith should diminish anxiety · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“I shall be given help to meet anything that comes to-day. Everything will be for the best.”

A formulation of her faith in resilience and the possibility of good outcomes · Essay, The Heart of the New Thought

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“I am not afraid to die, for death to me is but the threshold of a higher, purer, and more glorious life.”

Reflecting her spiritualist convictions and calm acceptance of mortality during long illness · Journal and autobiography entry

Achsa White Sprague

“God, though invisible, always has a hand extended to lift one end of the burden that weighs upon the poor.”

Original: Dios, aunque invisible, tiene siempre una mano tendida para levantar por un extremo la carga que abruma al pobre. — The image expresses faith in unseen consolation and assistance amid poverty and hardship. · Letter VI, Cartas desde mi celda (Spanish)

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer