You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

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

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?