The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.

Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.