“We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.”

“We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare. Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness. We must all strive and concentrate all our thoughts in order that such happiness may accrue to the world of humanity.”

“Security and safety were the reward of dullness.”

“Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?”

“For don't we all long for the comfort of absolutes?”

“The trouble is Indians aren't used to being prosperous. We are more comfortable dealing with poverty- after all, poverty has been the staple here, and has been for many centuries.”