Sublime

These little things are great to little man. GOLDSMITH247

Where they both failed was not in belief in God or in belief in themselves; they failed in belief in other people. It is not enough for a prophet to believe in his message; he must believe in its acceptability. Christ, St. Francis, Bunyan, Wesley, Mr. Gladstone, Walt Whitman, men of indescribable variety, were all alike in a certain faculty of trea

And now she saw Richard's path as he saw hers, and between the two sights they got on well.

When you love someone to the degree you love her, you see her as God sees her, and that is an instruction in the nature of God and humankind and of Being itself. That is why the Fifth Commandment belongs on the first tablet. I have persuaded myself of it.

The truth is that only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticise the state.

She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton—that Catholic equivalent of Hotei, the “laughing Buddha”—who, though neither a great poet nor a great theologian, had the sort of bewitched imagination from which great poetry and theology can be made. He shone as an essayist and fantast, and of all his many essays the most profound and provoking was “On Nonsense,” the

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.