Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.