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

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.