The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.

The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.