“If you are determined on the religious life, you have to toughen up your mind. You have to let it be a… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
That's the nub of the thing, you see seriousness of spirit. It doesn't mean heaviness of heart, or a lack of fantasy,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“The older I grow the less Christ's teaching says to me. I am sometimes very conscious that I am following the path… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“We come to God in little steps, not a leap, and that love of police-court truth you think so much of comes… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“But in every church there are people who, for reasons which seem sufficient to them, do not approve of their pastor and… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“In later life I have been sometimes praised, sometimes mocked, for my way of pointing out the mythical elements that seem to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share
If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and… — Robertson Davies Copy Share
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. — Robertson Davies Copy Share
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never… — Robertson Davies Copy Share
If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I… — Robertson Davies Copy Share
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem… — Robertson Davies Copy Share
I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his… — Robertson Davies Copy Share
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb — Robertson Davies Copy Share
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share
In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains… — Robertson Davies Copy Share
There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a… — Robertson Davies Copy Share
Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million. — Robertson Davies Copy Share
They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best… — Robertson Davies Copy Share
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old… — Robertson Davies Copy Share
