Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

Obedience is the key that opens every door.

When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

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