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

If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.

The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.