The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.

Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.