Sublime

the fact that there is nothing so really practical and urgent as ideal philosophy.

The command of Christ is impossible, but it is not insane; it is rather sanity preached to a planet of lunatics.

he is a poet in this real sense, that he has realised the meaning of every function he has performed.

He was perfectly right, of course, when one comes to think of it, in holding that it was physically impossible for a street to defeat a city.

Missing the point is a very fine art;

a thirst for some loyalty that shall unify life,

his greatest work may yet prove to be the perpetuation of the joyful mystery of Christmas.

that the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.