The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded

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

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.