For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.

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

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.