We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease were Aslan and the Witch herself. It was the oddest thing to see those two faces - the golden face and the dead-white face so close together. Not that the Witch looked Aslan exactly in his eyes; Mrs Beaver particularly noticed this.