It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.

The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.