Ronald Knox
Ronald Knox
Ronald Arbuthnott Knoxwas an English priest, theologian and author of detective stories. He was also a writer and a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 February 1888
humor humorous pose
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
bigot corrected
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ''I believe'' to ''One does feel.''
loyalty men thinking
All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the common property of all thinking men. They must have something-something outside themselves, to make them feel life is worth living, that good rather than evil is the explanation of the world.
arouse cover good interest sermon
A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.