You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door.

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object.