Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.