Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this.

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.