The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!