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

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

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

... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.