Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy. "It doesn’t matter.

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.