All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.