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

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.

I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.