The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.