Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.