Ronald Knox
Born
in Kibworth, Leicestershire, The United Kingdom
February 17, 1888
Died
August 24, 1957
Genre
The Three Taps: A Detective Story Without a Moral
23 editions
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1927
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The Creed in Slow Motion
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10 editions
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1949
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The Footsteps at the Lock
26 editions
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1928
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The Viaduct Murder
15 editions
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1925
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The Mass in Slow Motion
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The Belief of Catholics
19 editions
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1927
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The Body in the Silo
8 editions
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1933
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A Retreat for Lay People
22 editions
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published
1955
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In Soft Garments: A Collection of Oxford Conferences
30 editions
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published
1942
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Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion
16 editions
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1950
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“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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
― A Retreat for Lay People
― A Retreat for Lay People
“Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the bubbling up of a sanguine temperament; if it is demanded of us, it lies not in the temperament but in the will... Hoping for what? For delivereance from persecution, for immunity from plague, pestilence, and famine...? No, for the grace of persevering in his Christian profession, and for the consequent achievement of a happy immortality. Strictly speaking, then, the highest exercise of hope, supernaturally speaking, is to hope for perseverance and for Heaven when it looks, when it feels, as if you were going to lose both one and the other.”
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