Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

With grown people, a road led either to heaven or hell, but with children there were always stops along the way where their attention could be turned with a trifle.

Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.

Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy,

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.