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

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

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’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 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

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

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