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

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

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.

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.

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 Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.