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“Our time-saving devices have turned us into worried slaves instead of leisured masters.”

“By listening to God, I learn to listen to others, to the sea-depths in others, where the Spirit of God moves like swells. And only when I listen to others do I understand myself.”

“She is the great antidote to the poison Solzhenitsyn called “hastiness and superficiality.”

“In a word, God happens. I hear God. The sea is His tongue. He speaks to me there. He assured me that He is still in charge, that there is beauty forever beyond the reach of human folly and selfishness.”

“That puts us in danger of forgetting Lesson One, how little we know. The sea is one of the few remaining reminders of this...”

“On that inner sea of the human heart there has been an inner storm ever since we left Eden.”

“You can test a man’s attitude towards women by asking him why the sea is a woman.”

“The angel station is not Analysis but Intuition.”

“...he has to believe that that feeing is false, stupid, wrong, pointless, and out of tune with reality, since reality is nothing but chance and gravity and molecules. That feeling of cosmic gratitude and praise was a temptation to be “religious”.”

“For an atheist, I think the most terrible moments must be the moments of joy, when there arises from his heart the wisest and best feeling anyone can have— cosmic gratitude, praise for his very existence and that of the universe and...”