Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.