Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.