When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.

[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons--marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.

Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.