Braver than most or else just silly

'Is - is he a man? asked Lucy.

'Aslan a man!' said Mr Beaver sternly.'Certainly not. I tell you he is the King of the wood and the son of the great Emperor-beyond-the-Sea. Don't you know who is the King of Beasts? Aslan is a lion - the Lion, the great Lion.'

'ooh!' said Susan,'I'd thought he was a man. Is he - quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.'

'That you will, dearie, and no mistake,' said Mrs Beaver;'if there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most or else just silly.'

'Then he isn't safe?' said Lucy.

'Safe?' said Mr Beaver; 'don't you hear what Mrs Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.'

(Chapter Eight, p75)

Don't you know?

'Who is Aslan?' asked Susan.

'Aslan?' said Mr Beaver. 'Why, don't you know? He's the King, He's the Lord of the whole wood, but not often here, you understand. Never in my time or my father's time. But the word has reached us that he has come back. He is in Narnia at this moment. He'll settle the White Queen all right. It is he, not you, that will save Tumnus.'

(Chapter Eight, p74)

We are the change that we seek?

'It's no good, Son of Adam,' said Mr Beaver, ' no good your trying, of all people. But now that Aslan is on the move - '

'Oh yes! Tell us about Aslan!' said several voices at once; for once again that strange feeling - like the first signs of spring, like good news, had come over them.'

(Chapter Eight, p74)

Trapped by Our Own Desires

'Edmund was already feeling uncomfortable from having eaten too many sweets, and when he heard that the Lady he had made friends with was a dangerous witch he felt even more uncomfortable. But he still wanted to taste Turkish Delight again more than he wanted anything else.' (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe CS Lewis, p42)