What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. And mother and wife and child and friend will all be in league to keep a soul from being united with the Divine Nature.