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

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

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.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.