We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.