If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then --Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.

Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.

The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.