But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.