Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one particular.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle