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

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing.

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.