We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

This moment contains all moments.

The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.

A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.