If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a swift flash like fire (but it burnt nobody) either from the sky or from the Lion itself, and every drop of blood tingled in the children's bodies, and the deepest, wildest voice they had ever heard was saying: "Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.