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

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

God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.

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.

Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns Our only hope: to leap into the Word That opens up the shuttered universe.

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

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.