And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.