We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.

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

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.