Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

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.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.