It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all