If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.