“We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.”
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”
“The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books”
“You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.”
“Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.”