For Narnia and for Aslan!

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.