By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed.

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.