We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.