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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.
No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.
I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.
Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world
I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.
When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.
A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.
We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.
Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.
Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.
Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.
We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.
If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.
Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.
Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.