The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.

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