He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.