A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.