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

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.