We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.