Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease were Aslan and the Witch herself. It was the oddest thing to see those two faces - the golden face and the dead-white face so close together. Not that the Witch looked Aslan exactly in his eyes; Mrs Beaver particularly noticed this.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.