It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle