To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door.