He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.