“By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.”
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“We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology”
“It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination”
“The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.”
“Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when he prospers them and makes them rich, but they think God loves them not when he afflicts them. That is a mystery, but grace instructs men in that mystery, grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God's face, and so come to receive contentment.”
“Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.”
“Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
“Zen is the vehicle of reality.”
“Emotion without action is irrelevant.”
“Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.”
“Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.”
“I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the constellations Orion, Cassiopeia’s Chair, the Big Dipper; the only thing real in them is the stars, and the only thing real in the creeds is the soul’s aspiration toward the Infinite.”
“I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it . Because there is, of course, always the desire, the hope, that they are not two separate worlds, sound and silence, but that they become each other, that only our hearing fails.”
“Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.”
“The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.”
“The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory”
“Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.”
“Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.”
“We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.”
“Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.”