Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.

I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.