We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.

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

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.