To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.

The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.