Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.