and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.