They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination.

But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.)