Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.