As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

We thought the Duke would have been pleased if the King's Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that--' Squints, and has freckles,' said Caspian. Oh, poor girl,' said Lucy.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.