Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.