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  • The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

  • ... There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.

  • Since he had put almost nothing into his religion at any time during his life, there was no real reason why he should have expected, suddenly in an emergency, to get something out of it.

  • Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.

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  • Explain yourself without gestures. The moment you gesticulate, you look common.

  • How close are religion and art? Both cry for spiritual beauty, and both must learn to be humble, to forget self, in order to reflect clearly, like a mirror unblemished by a particle of dust.

  • It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want to veil it in a supernatural haze. They are very reluctant to part with the old idea that God has given to Jews and Christians a peculiar monopoly of truth. It is a selfish view of God's government of the world, and it is time that we knew enough to outgrow it.