Am I lost or just less found?

If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.