It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.

Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing