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

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

The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at the meeting of two heavenward lines, one drawn from Bethany along the Ascent of the Messias, the other from Jerusalem against the Descent of the Paraclete. That measurement, the measurement of eternity in operation, of the bright cloud and the rushing wind, is, in effect, theology.

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

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

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