You become what you behold.
Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.