How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.