What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.