The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.

Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.