Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.
How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.
Let’s pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God’s eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician’s Book.
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.
If there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most, or else just silly.
This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there’s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life.
Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people’s minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.
Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.