Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.