The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

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.

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.

I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.