It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure all the time that he had done the right thing; but whenever he remembered the shining tears in Aslan's eyes he became sure.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.