Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

In our adversity, God shouts to us.

We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.