When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self is renounced, then one stands utterly disillusioned, apart, asking for nothing. If anything comes to us, it is all sheer gain. Then life becomes one constant surprise.

Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart.

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.