If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.

All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.