How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

Christianity is a fighting religion.

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.