Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.