It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing

Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at it–how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We aren’t adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home.

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

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.

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