My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.

You cannot make men good by law.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.