Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

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

For Narnia and for Aslan!