You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.