The greatest power available to man is not to use it.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.