When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.