There seems no plan because it is all plan.

Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.