The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

...the soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great difference, that in such a state, it stands in much nearer connection with the spirtual than the material world.

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The true leader is always led.

The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.