“You can’t imagine how I dislike people’s faces. Only the conventions of years of social behaviour stop me, I sometimes feel, shouting at them.”

Irritable honesty about social dislike · Letter, 15 October 1943

• Courtesy
• Honesty
• Society

“It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.”

Human pardon is part of the same humility as divine pardon · Review in Time and Tide, 1941

• Forgiveness
• Humility
• Morality

“If one is anxious to write about God, one ought to be anxious to write well.”

Craft and reverence belong together when the subject is sacred · Essay, The Productions of Time, Time and Tide, 1941

• Craft
• God
• Writing