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

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing--rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?