The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

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

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

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 will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are but the last traces in a less philosophical age of the ideas which Plato taught his disciples existed in the spiritual world.

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.