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

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.

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

It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.

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

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

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.