The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.

All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

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

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.