In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.

Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question "What on earth is he up to now?" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, "I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.