There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.