“What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, ‘What does it matter so long as they are contented?’ We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven — a senile benevolence who, as they say, ‘liked to see young people enjoying themselves,’ and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, ‘a good time was had by all.”
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“I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“The miles were eaten up under him as he sped he knew not whither, fulfilling his instincts, living his hour, reckless
of what might come to him.”
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of what might come to him.”
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