Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

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

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.