You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.

We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.