We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.

Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces under the word Charity. But God can give a third. He can awake in man, towards Himself, a supernatural Appreciative love. This is of all gifts the most to be desired. Here, not in our natural loves, nor even in ethics, lies the true centre of all human and angelic life. With this all things are possible.

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.