The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.