It is often little things that are hardest to stand.

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

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

This moment contains all moments.