Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.