I saw that I must love men as they were, not as they should be. Another night I became aware of a great throng of angels moving slowly through the darkness toward my bed.

When the mouth is too much open, even to speak good, the soul loses its fire just as a room loses warmth through an open door.

Our beliefs are proved by what we do.

“For my part, I admire no progress that is bought with tears and blood, however impressive it may look from outside. Never has any people chosen communism in a free election, or gotten rid of it with another.”

The philosopher answered, ‘A tyrant ruled by his lusts is in bondage; a slave who rules his passions is free. King, free yourself!’”

“But every law is unfair to someone,” I replied. “The law tells a millionaire who lacks nothing not to steal, and it says the same to you and men who have nothing. Jesus excuses David for doing unallowed things when he was very hungry.”

Every viewpoint is in reality a point of blindness, because it incapacitates you totally from seeing other points of view. It is only when we abandon all ‘points of view’ and accept our intuition of the whole that we find truth.

So until, like Joseph, you reach the end of the story, you can never know if what has happened so far will prove good or bad.

growled. “I’ve learned the value of fasting in prison.” “And what might that be?” I said, “Firstly, it shows that the spirit is master of the body.