The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.