Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Why must holy places be dark places?

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.