Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

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

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.