"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together."

“Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.”

“I love an art-school girl. I mean dont we all?”

“This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages”

“Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps the single most dangerous feature of our Church and culture-and the sentimental air is never thicker than at Christmas. The Incarnation is messy, dirty, and resonates with the crucifixion. We need a new wave of carol writing that can gradually swill out the nonsense and catch the piercing, joy-through-pain refrains of the New Testament.”

“I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.”

“The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.”

“The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.”

Source : Beverley Nichols (1953). “Merry Hall”

“While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.”