What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

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

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen. There are other people who are slowly becoming Christians though they do not yet call themselves so.