After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.

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

Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together

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.

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

Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.