Jo Sparkes

“You must believe, sooner or later, in a Mind which brought mind into existence out of matter, unless you are going to sit down before the hopeless metaphysical contradiction of saying that matter somehow managed to develop itself into mind.”
― Ronald A. Knox, In Soft Garments: A Collection of Oxford Conferences

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

“It is possible to argue that the true business of faith is not to produce emotional conviction in us, but to teach us to do without it.”
― Ronald Knox, A Retreat for Lay People

“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