You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that morning. He just went on looking at Aslan. It didn't seem to matter what the Witch said.

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.