There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.

Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door.

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.