"Rise up, Sir Peter Wolf's-Bane. And, whatever happens, never forget to wipe your sword."

The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe

"Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."

The Problem of Pain

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

Mere Christianity

(also, my birthday today. hurrrr...)

"If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell."

The Great Divorce

"There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth."

The Screwtape Letters

"Aslan's on the move."

The Last Battle

Very fitting, I must say.

"The good of oneself is to be the good of another."

The Screwtape Letters

"Stagnation, my dear boy, what is more soul destroying than stagnation?"

The Great Divorce

"I am rather sick of the modern assumption that, for all events, 'WE,' the people, are never responsible: it is always our rulers, or ancestors, or parents, or education, or anybody but precious 'US.' WE are apparently perfect and blameless. Don't you believe it."

Letters to an American Lady

"How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing (and perhaps, like you, I have met it only once) it is irresistible."

Letters to an American Lady