At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.