No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.