Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.