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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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