Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.