The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

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.