We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said: "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.