No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.