When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.