How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

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

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.