You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said: "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond.

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.