We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

Autumn is really the best of the seasons

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.

And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.

Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five.

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