There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!

I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.