For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is