You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

Religion is life essential.

There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.

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

Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.