Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.

His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.