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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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