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

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.