A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.