You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.

A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor-that is the only way out of a "hole." This process of surrender-this movement full speed astern-is repentance.