Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.