You can't lay down any pattern for God. There are many different ways of bringing people into his Kingdom, even some ways that I specially dislike! I have therefore learned to be cautious in my judgment.

The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners.

The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.