Total war is the most humane in the long run.

The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle