Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

If things are real, they're there all the time.