The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty of its Creator: and so lived, every bit has spiritual significance.

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.

It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in other respects - cannot be the external world, but only the Self's projected picture of it ... The evidence of the senses, then, cannot be accepted as evidence of the nature of ultimate reality; useful servants, they are dangerous guides.

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

It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.