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

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.