The greatest asset an individual can have is the spirit of progress.  Without it all else is largely in vain.  With it every good thing is possible.  What is the spirit of progress?  It is the desire to know what constitutes true success and the willingness to take the patient steps which lead to it; the desire to correct errors, traits and tendencies which retard progress and the willingness to [...]

You have not only lost the knowledge of God, you have also lost faith in yourselves.  Infinite are the powers that lie in man, but he makes no use of them, he lets them wither.  Before he begins some work he introduces his thinking, and lets himself be governed by it.  And in its limitation the memory of man, which is lawfully subordinate to this earth, cannot grasp that the spirit should be superior [...]