It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse..

You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are but the last traces ….

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to hav….

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts..

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather..

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe..

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying..

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else..

The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at the meeting o….

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love oug….

"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the o….

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy..

It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the….

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolv….

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition..

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven..

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit..

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter..

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?.