For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.

The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .

A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God.

We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.

In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak; it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead.

Whatever the self describes, describes the self.

You are at enmity with yourself.

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Today is the most important day to start a new beginning. It will open the door of opportunity and reveal the holding.

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

If you strive to be perfect in everything, whether it's possible or not, you will always live a more fulfilled life.

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves.

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.

Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread, and serve you French toast again. Okay, I still get stoned.

I don't think a lot of people are like, "I'm just quirky!" Or if they are, it's a stage they're going through as they figure out who they are. I never felt like I was choosing roles that were quirky.