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

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

Miracles are for beginners.