A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

Life is sweet or bitter depending on where your attention is, at that moment.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

Deism is compatible with evolutionary theory.

I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places.

I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.

Fighting disparities is very significant.

Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs

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