Friends are seldom found; they are made.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

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

Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.