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The absurd extravagance of many attempts to “spiritualize” the latter should not blind us to the truth which they caricature.

Therefore, if our conceptions of God are overwhelmed by what we know of nature, let us seek to enlarge and spiritualize them.

God, as the absolute substance, is the absolute ideality, the infinite power to spiritualize all things.

It requires a vast deal of refinement to spiritualize their large physical endowments.

That consciousness tended rather to spiritualize his thought: we may say, it subdued him.

I screamed at him, 'But you must spiritualize—don't you understand?

It helped to elevate and spiritualize woman and lift her offspring and the generations of men to a higher spiritual plane.

But I am just as ready to spiritualize it as he is, provided I am sure first that we understand it.

To spiritualize what is material, to Christianize what is secular—this is the noble achievement of Christian principle.

Thus shall he perform the highest function of the prophet—to spiritualize and glorify the common.