You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

The Faces of Jesus

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it’s all one.

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

Matthew lists Rahab as one of the ancestresses of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:5), and that may be one reason why there was something about free-wheeling ladies with warm and generous hearts that he was never quite able to resist.