Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.