Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

For Narnia and for Aslan!

Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.