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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.”
It was lamentable to see that old man, with the grave yawning in front of him, weep like a child because he hadn’t been asked to a party: shocking and at the same time almost intolerably pathetic.
‘Our wise old Church,’ he said then, ‘has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be granted to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.
‘A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?’
“You want to taste sugar, you don’t want to become sugar. What is individuality but the expression of our egoism? Until the soul has shed the last trace of that it cannot become one with the Absolute.”
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
