When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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.

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.

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.