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Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.
Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.
I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.
If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.
I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.
Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.
In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex
Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.
If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.
For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.
To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.
You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.
The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.
For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.
If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.
Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.
A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.