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

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

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.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

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.

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.