Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.