The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund