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

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.

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

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.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

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

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