I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.