When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.