The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.

If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.