The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And this is, in principle, how Hitler treated the Jews. They were objects; killed not for ill desert but because, on his theories, they were a disease in society. If society can mend, remake, and unmake men at its pleasure, its pleasure may, of course, be humane or homicidal. The difference is important. But, either way, rulers have become owners.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.