If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.

Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?