Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people