Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

Christianity is a fighting religion.

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.