The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

So the lover must struggle for words.

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

To make an end is to make a beginning.

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.