The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.