Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The darkness declares the glory of light.

All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence