“A worthless servant is more popular than his master! This means that the apocalypse mentioned in the Bible is near at hand!”

“The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.”

“Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.”

“If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.”

“To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems…which he has to solve…And he is distressed to find that the more means he can dispose of—such as machine-power, rapid transport, and general civilized amenities, the more his problems grow in hardness and complexity….Perhaps the first thing he can learn form the artists is that the only way of 'mastering' one's material is to abandon the whole conception of mastery and to co-operate with it in love: whosoever will be a lord of life, let him be its servant. ”

“Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.”