The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

For Narnia and for Aslan!

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.