To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one’s life wold not make sense if God did not exist.
—Cardinal Emmanuel Suhard, Priests Among Men, quoted in Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water, p31.
Little Gidding
And every phrase
And sentence that is right (where every word is at home,
Taking its place to support the others,
The word neither diffident nor ostentatious,
An easy commerce of the old and the new,
The common word exact without vulgarity,
The formal word precise but not pedantic,
The complete consort dancing together)
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,
Every poem an epitaph.
—T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
And sentence that is right (where every word is at home,
Taking its place to support the others,
The word neither diffident nor ostentatious,
An easy commerce of the old and the new,
The common word exact without vulgarity,
The formal word precise but not pedantic,
The complete consort dancing together)
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,
Every poem an epitaph.
—T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Why should men love the Church?
They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
—T.S. Eliot, The Rock.
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
—T.S. Eliot, The Rock.
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