Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

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

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.

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.

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

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.