The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.