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

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.

Father! Can I box him? Please!