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

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.