Ronald Knox Quotes

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

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

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

The difference between the Old and the New Testament is the difference between a man who said "There is nothing new under the sun" and a God who says "Behold, I make all things new.

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.

Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.