The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it.

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.