If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

[S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that anyone can decide this moment that he will never feel it anymore. That is not how things happen. I mean that every time it bobs its head up, day after day, year after year, all our lives long, we must hit it on the head. It is hard work, but the attempt is not impossible.

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.