You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

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 birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

History is a story written by the finger of God.