True Faith Is Belief In The Reality

All Faith Consists Essentially In The Recognition Of A World Of Spiritual Values Behind, Yet Not Apart From, The World Of Natural Phenomena.

If We Feel That Any Habit Or Pursuit, Harmless In Itself, Is Keeping Us From God And Sinking Us Deeper In The Things Of Earth; If We Find That Things Which Others Can Do With Impunity Are For Us The Occasion Of Falling, Then Abstinence Is Our Only Course. Abstinence Alone Can Recover For Us The Real Value Of What Should Have Been For Our Help But Which Has Been An Occasion Of Falling. ... It Is Necessary That We Should Steadily Resolve To Give Up Anything That Comes Between Ourselves And God.

No Word In Our Language - Not Even "socialism" - Has Been Employed More Loosely Than "mysticism." The History Of The Word Begins In Close Connexion With The Greek Mysteries. A Mystic Is One Who Has Been, Or Is Being, Initiated Into Some Esoteric Knowledge Of Divine Things, About Which He Must Keep His Mouth Shut.

Civilization Is A Disease Which Is Almost Invariably Fatal.

Man Will Never Be Entirely Willing To Give Up This World For The Next Nor The Next World For This.