Sublime

Our grounds for gratitude are really far greater than our powers of being grateful.

The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times; it is waiting till the last fad shall have seen its last summer. It keeps the key of a permanent virtue.”

Wherever humanity is he would have us face it and make something of it,

Augustine is our contemporary. He has directly and indirectly shaped the way we understand our pursuits, the call to authenticity.

For us in England something will have perished which our fathers valued all the more because they hardly troubled to name it;

So while a pastor need not be a scholar, he ought to be a man of doctrine.