The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.