To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.