And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal.

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.