Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes—like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night —little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.

Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'