To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.

When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

you can never prove God; you can only find Him!