Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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.

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.