For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying.