Sublime

David—Nobody expects God to choose a lowly shepherd to rule over Israel. David’s adventures are told in loving (and sometimes lurid) detail.

Sir Christopher Clitherow

He knew that difficulties already existed in reconciling these two approaches to the world – the scientific and the religious. But he hoped that those stumbling blocks would be overcome with further investigation – with no serious damage to either mode of philosophy, saying ‘neither will the ardour of science be discouraged, nor the full confidence

Basel,

Mr Smith, a sea-officer of the small, trim, brisk, round-headed, portwine kind, once shipmates with Stephen in the Lively and now second in the Goliath, rode by on a camel, with his legs folded negligently over the creature’s neck to the manner born:

In situations like this, it is controlled chaos. I wish I had the code to unlock Michael’s mind. But no such code exists. All I can bring to the conversation are my heart and my trust that God wants me in the midst of this chaos. The imprisoned are the poorest of the poor. If the heart of God is to be found anywhere, it is to be found in the hole.

Psalm 23 (“The Lord is my shepherd”).

Like the entire British adventure in India, Curzon was at once pompous and vain, earnest, ruthlessly enterprising, and rigidly devoted to a mission of moral superiority.