It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

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.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.