Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time I did not know where I was or what I was doing… - Robertson Davies

Prayer is petition, intercession, adoration, and contemplation; great saints and mystics have agreed on this definition. To stop short at petition is to pray only in a crippled fashion. Further, such prayer encourages one of the faults which is most reprehended by spiritual instructors — turning to God without turning from Self.

An important aspect of Nonconformity was its cult of the Bible as the fount of all wisdom. But the Bible takes much of its colour from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.

Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire.