In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope.

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

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And all man's winters are His - the winter of our poverty, the winter of our sorrow, the winter of our unhappiness - even 'the winter of our discontent.

He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.