Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if it is to be communicated, and its actuality is inexpressible except in some hint or parallel which will stimulate the dormant intuition of the reader.

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

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

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

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

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