Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.

The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!