Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.