Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.

I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.

Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart