The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants you. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out for anything except itself [Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:3-7]. Of course, He may have a special job for you: and the certain job is that of becoming more and more His.