The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.

It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

The whole point of the story of Cornelius and of the admission of the Gentiles lies in the fact that these people had not accepted what up to that moment had been considered a necessary part of the Christian teaching. The question was whether they could be admitted without accepting the teaching and undergoing the rite. It was that question which was settled by the acknowledgement that they had received the Holy Spirit... The difficulty today is that Christians acknowledge that others have the Spirit, and yet do not recognize that they ought to be, and must be -- because spiritually they are -- in communion with one another. Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

All prayers and hopes are a reaching-out for coincidences.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff.

Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 Although we have different ways of worshipping and doing things, we have only one God. So how can we claim to have... "Good News" unless people can see in us that Jesus Christ is breaking down barriers and bringing us together?

Philosophy is true mother of the arts.

Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ;fine home, says: "No man should have so much." The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: "All men should have as much.".

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

Be aristocracy the only joy: Let commerce perish--let the world expire.

A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel, Perplex'd with the newly found fardel of life.

Often, the only way to comfort the suffering is to understand that you can't understand and just be there.

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.