The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.

Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.