I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal." "But how could you help that?" "Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?

The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.