If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

Laziness means more work in the long run.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.