At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.