You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.