Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or — if they think there is not — at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.