It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade!

The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.