Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.

- Ronald Knox

Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top…

- Ronald Knox

It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to say that as a matter of…

- Ronald Knox

He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

- Ronald Knox

The difference between the Old and the New Testament is the difference between a man who said "There is nothing new under the sun" and a God who says…

- Ronald Knox

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

- Ronald Knox

O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever ab…

- Ronald Knox

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

- Ronald Knox

All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the…

- Ronald Knox