Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

Come, live with me and you'll know me.