Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.