One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.