Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it would be impious to call ourselves 'miserable.' On the contrary, Man is a creature whom the Angels-were they capable of envy-would envy. Let us lift up our hearts!

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.