Quotes by Clifford Longley

“[Its] language is as bare as a monks cell, and as uninviting.”

“The Ely Experience: Private Morals and Public Truth”

“They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?”

“John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket.”