We must never be content to rest in them.

Though in many respects, mental as well as physical, we are animals still; yet we are animals with a possible future in the making, both corporate and individual, which we cannot yet define.

All other levels of life assure us that the impulsive nature is peculiarly susceptible to education.

Not only can the whole group of instincts which help self-fulfilment be directed to higher levels, united and subdued to a dominant emotional interest; but merely instinctive actions can, by repetition and control, be raised to the level of habit and be given improved precision and complexity.

This, of course, is a primary function of devotional exercises; training the first blind instinct for God to the complex responses of the life of prayer.