Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

No man is an island unto himself.