Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.