Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.