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

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

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

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

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

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

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.