Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.