of Christian morality. |
Adam and Eve are like imaginary number, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. |
Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature. |
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit. |
Books which satisfy us and feed us and nourish us have to have this substratum of genuine truth in them, ... And I don't see much of that in most fantasy. |
Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it. |
Fighting isn't the right response to bullying-for adults. Adults have to find out what makes the bully the way he is and look for reasons and answers and understanding. That's an adult's responsibility. |
For a human being, nothing comes naturally. We have to learn everything we do. |
I warmly welcome Anand Tucker as director of the first His Dark Materials film, ... He respects the integrity of the narrative and will maintain that integrity in the film-making process. His ideas are exciting and well thought out, and I greatly look forward to seeing the project go forward in his hands. |
If the Disney Corp. wants to market this film as a great Christian story, they'll just have to tell lies about it, |
If the Disney Corp. wants to market this film as a great Christian story, they'll just have to tell lies about it. |
It's not like watching TV; it's not even like watching a film in a cinema. Everyone in that big space is alive and everyone is focussed on one central activity. |
It's not the presence of Christian doctrine I object to so much as the absence of Christian virtue, |
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. |
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. |