God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

Obedience is the key that opens every door.

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.