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

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

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 have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.

Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.

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

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