The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers.