God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you get to rule Narnia for another hundred years. So maybe I die, and winter goes on. Maybe the hunger and the darkness and the fear never end. But as long as the children believe in me, I know that Aslan will live again. I, the Great Lion, Son of The Emperor Over The Sea, will live again and -- aaaaauugh!!

Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.