The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

Nature hates calculators.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

I’m crepuscular.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.