If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road..

Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the ot….

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it'….

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing..

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs..

Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other..

...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free the slave….

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing.

It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the words, and perhaps the courage to speak with unlock….

But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I was obeying the second - to love my neighbour. ….

Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the del….

Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at it–how fast it goes,….

Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our very standpoin….

…though I wouldn’t have admitted it, even to myself, I didn’t want God aboard. He was too heavy. I wanted Him approving from a considerable distance.….

The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes twist everything. You are ….

God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms..

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom..