Like a child you must meet a living world through relationship as gift. As Bonhoeffer says in his own exploration of this text, Jesus belongs (is attached) to children. You must be a person bound to others to enter this kingdom. This is a kingdom of resonance, not resources (and the alienation that resource obsession will inevitably produce).

The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

C. S. Lewis remarks that for many readers, it’s not just the events of the story that matter: it’s the world the story conjures up.

It is only the man who writes absolutely for the sake of the subject that writes anything worth writing. What an inestimable advantage it would be, if, in every branch of literature, there existed only a few but excellent books!