Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

I am in love and out of it I will not go.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.