No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.

Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.

Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world