For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.