I thought going in that I had to have this very broad, very palatable sensibility that works for everybody, but then the stuff that I'm the most proud of, and probably even got the most success from, was outwardly an expression of queerness or gayness. That's been a nice surprise.

Christendom and the theological world were always ill-advised in thinking it their duty for some reason or other, either of enthusiasm or of theological conception, to pitch their tents in opposition to reason.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.