If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.

Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease were Aslan and the Witch herself. It was the oddest thing to see those two faces - the golden face and the dead-white face so close together. Not that the Witch looked Aslan exactly in his eyes; Mrs Beaver particularly noticed this.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.