Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of that,' said Aslan. 'Have you not guessed?' Their hearts leapt, and a wild hope rose within them. 'There was a real railway accident,' said Aslan softly. 'Your father and mother and all of you are- as you used to call it in the Shadowlands- dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.