I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.
I have come, said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .
For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear t...
You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without the lot of you!
The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (abov...
Creatures, I give you yourselves," said the strong, happy voice of Aslan. "I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I give you the woods, the fruits, the rivers. I give you the stars and I give you...
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
If you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head, said Peridan. Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins.It is very true, said Edmund. But even a traitor may mend. I...
When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which arises between them will very easily pass – may pass in the first half hour – i...
When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and...
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.
This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle...
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what w...