All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.