God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.