We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

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.

Selfishness has never been admired.