Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.

Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.