[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.

When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.