The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.

The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.