“Who are you?” One who has waited long for you to speak.

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.