But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have turned out all right – somehow? But how? Please, Aslan! Am I not to know?" "To know what would have happened, child?" said Aslan. "No. Nobody is ever told that." "Oh dear," said Lucy. "But anyone can find out what will happen," said Aslan. "If you go back to the others now, and wake them up; and tell them you have seen me again; and that you must all get up at once and follow me – what will happen? There is only one way of finding out.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.