I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.