Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.