Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

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

That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.