If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.