You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.