I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

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.

They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.