We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

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.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.