Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.