Joy is the serious business of heaven.

We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.