God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

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

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.

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

The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.