Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.