If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.