The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.

Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.

Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.