You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid upon Gift-love. It must work toward its own abdication. We must aim at making ourselves superfluous. The hour when we can say 'They need me no longer' should be our reward. But the instinct, simply in its own nature, has no power to fulfill this law.