In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.