Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?

Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a swift flash like fire (but it burnt nobody) either from the sky or from the Lion itself, and every drop of blood tingled in the children's bodies, and the deepest, wildest voice they had ever heard was saying: "Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.