It is often a very rigid soul who will say, "God is my ideal. I do not care for any other ideal." It comes from his rigidness, for it only means that he does not wish for the ladder; he wishes to jump from the ground to the next floor. The ideal of God is the perfect ideal, and in order to reach it there must be a footstool, there must be a ladder, there must be a steppingstone which leads to it, be it a principle, be it a belief, be it an action, be it a position, be it a person.