If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

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

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis