Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.