It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.
Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
For I have known them all already, known them all – Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
The work of creation is never without travail.
Past art is subject to change.
We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
The naming of cats is a difficult matter.
If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.
Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream...
The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.
There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause.
People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.
A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.
All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.
If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.