Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.

As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' - but the mystics don't deal with feelings but with love which is a very different thing. You have too many 'feelings,' but not nearly enough love.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.