The more you know, the more you see

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

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.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.