It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.