If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.