God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.

You cannot make men good by law.