There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.

Religion is life essential.

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.