A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and religion are about. Culture as a collective name for certain very valuable activities is a permissible word; but culture hypostatized, set up on its own, made into a faith, a cause, a banner, a platform, is unendurable. For none of the activities in question cares a straw for that faith or cause. It is like a return to early Semitic religion where names themselves were regarded as powers.

Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.