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

Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions.

Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.

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Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.