Quotes from William L. Riordan

God does not stop giving Himself over to us, in His deifying manner, until He has become flesh in us and our flesh has become God by participation, as fully as possible, in Him. This deification of our being is a transforming, mystical ascent: God is transforming us through the operations of His hierarchies. The ones being transformed are, in their turn, acting members of the hierarchies.

To men, with their composite nature, [God] grants whatever angelic life they are able to absorb and, overflowing with love for mankind, it returns us and calls us back to itself after we have strayed, and, more marvelous still, it has promised us that it will transform what we are—I mean our souls and bodies yoked to them—and will bring us perfect life and immortality.

The men who rule have practiced keepin' their tongues still, not exercisin' them. So you want to drop the orator idea unless you mean to go into politics just to perform the skyrocket act.

First, this great and glorious country was built up by political parties; second, parties can't hold together if their workers don't get the offices when they win; third, if the parties go to pieces, the government they built up must go to pieces, too; fourth, then there'll be h——to pay.