Quotes From "The Flowering Tree" By Caryll Houselander

God abides in men"" God abides in men, These are men who are simple, they are fields of corn.. Such men have mindslike wide grey skies, they have the grandeurthat the fools call emptiness. God abides in men. Some men are not simple, they live in citiesamong the teeming buildings, wrestling with forcesas strong as the sun and the rain. Often they must forgo dream upon dream.. Christ walks in the wildernessin such lives. God abides in men, because Christ has put onthe nature of man, like a garment, and worn it to his own shape. He has put on everyone's life..to the workman's clothes to the King's red robes, to the snowy loveliness of the wedding garment.. Christ has put on Man's nature, and given him back his humanness.. God abides in man. . Caryll Houselander

I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might closeon my own peace, I wanted to closethe peace of my love in my heartlike dew in a dark rose." From "Philip Speaks Caryll Houselander

Soeur Marie Emelie"Soeur Marie Emelieis little and very old:her eyes are onyx, and her cheeks vermilion, her apron wide and kindand cobalt blue. She comfortsgenerations and generationsof children, who are "new"at the convent school. When they are eight, they are already up to her shoulder, they grow up and go into the world, she remains, forever, always incredibly old, but incredibly never older.. She has an affinity with the hens, When a hen dies, she sits down on a bench and cries, she is the only grown-up, whose tears are not frightening tears. Children can weep without shame, at her side.. Soeur Marie Emelie..her apron as wide and kindas skies on a summer dayand as clean and blue. Caryll Houselander