The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said: "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.