Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door.

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.

This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.