He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

Further up and further in!

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.