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.

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.