Sir John Davies

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    Columbus’s doom-burdened caravels
    Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.
    Sir John Collings Squire (1884–1958)

    The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
    —Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)

    And as the sun above the light doth bring,
    Though we behold it in the air below,
    So from th’ eternal Light the soul doth spring,
    Though in the body she her powers do show.
    —Sir John Davies (1569–1626)