If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.