The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?" "But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan. "Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund. "I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.