Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.