Human intellect is incurably abstract.

The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.

In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.