Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy