When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.