.... He subscribed to what I and most of my contemporaries judged to be a tissue of absurdities: Christ risen from the Dead and Things of that sort. There was no reason why he shouldn't. He shared those beliefs, after all, with plenty of people much cleverer than I was, including the Provost and (presumably) the Archbishop of Canterbury. But unlike these more experienced wayfarers in an infidel world, he was simply unable to accept the fact that anybody he knew could be without some vital spark of faith deep in his soul.
- J. I. M. Stewart in Young Patullo (the second volume in A Staircase in Surrey)
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