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

The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name 'leaders' for those who were once 'rulers'. We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, 'Mind your own business.' Our whole lives are their business.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.