Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.