For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts.