Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.