Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.