You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy. "It doesn’t matter.

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.