Jo Sparkes

“When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

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― Ronald Knox

“There was a young man who said "God
Must find it exceedingly odd
To think that the tree
Should continue to be
When there's no one about in the quad."

Reply:
"Dear Sir: Your astonishment's odd;
I am always about in the quad.
And that's why the tree
Will continue to be
Since observed by, Yours faithfully, God.”
― Ronald Knox

“Can anything matter, unless there is Somebody who minds?”
― Ronald A. Knox, In Soft Garments: A Collection of Oxford Conferences

“If a man tells you that he is fond of the Imitation, view him with sudden suspicion; he is either a dabbler or a Saint.”
― Ronald A. Knox