Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.