"The Ball and the Cross" Quotes

I have never been able to understand where people got the idea that democracy was in some way opposed to tradition. It is obvious that tradition is only democracy extended through time.

I never could understand why the idea of the Angelus should have had such a fascination for me. It is a piece of superstition. But then I am a piece of superstition myself.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. No one sees anything funny in a tree falling down. No one sees a delicate absurdity in a stone falling down. No man stops in the road and roars with laughter at the sight of the snow coming down.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

I could never mix in the common murmur of that rising generation against monogamy, because no restrictions on sex seemed so odd and unexpected as sex itself.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Men feel that if they are to be unselfish in some other way, they must be unselfish in marriage.

I tell you naught for your comfort, yea, naught for your desire, save that the sky grows darker yet and the sea rises higher.

There is something solemn about it, something of the same kind of awe as one feels in a great cathedral.

I have always felt that the real horror of the Jameson raid was not what it did to the British, but what it did to the Boers.