People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.