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.

I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

To the glistening Eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy, the Valiant. To the great Western Wood, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant Southern sun, Queen Susan, the Gentle; and to the clear Northern sky I give you King Peter, the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen. May your wisdom grace us 'til the stars rain down from the heavens.

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart