If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure all the time that he had done the right thing; but whenever he remembered the shining tears in Aslan's eyes he became sure.

A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.