Getting over it so soon? But the words are ambiguous. To say the patient is getting over it after an operation for appendicitis is one thing; after he’s had his leg off is quite another. After that op...
Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, Do you care about the same truth?
But please, please - won't you - can't you give me something that will cure Mother?' Up till then he had been looking at the Lion's great feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his despair, he looke...
But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.
And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this the end of all the storie...
And Peter became a tall and deep-chested man and a great warrior, and he was called King Peter the Magnificent. And Susan grew into a tall and gracious woman with black hair that fell almost to her fe...
All get what they want; they do not always like it.
We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading.
Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay and it is no use at all trying to...
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.
You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.
When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.
We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.
The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a ho...
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well eno...
Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.
One word, Ma'am, he said, coming back from the fire; limping, because of the pain. One word. All you've been saying is quite right, I shouldn't wonder. I'm a chap who always liked to know the worst an...
None of the children knew who Aslan was any more than you do; but the moment the Beaver had spoken these words everyone felt quite different. Perhaps it has sometimes happened to you in a dream that s...
Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the Professor’s mysterious old house. At first, her brothers and sister don’t believe her when she tells of her visit to the land of Narnia. But...