I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

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

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.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

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