I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.