I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.