"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."
"He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)"
"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."
"When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand."
"We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely"
"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."