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Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?
Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.
People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.
Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.
and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people
The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.
Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.
Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in
Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ
Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.
The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.
The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.
The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!
God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.
The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.
Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?
You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.
It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.
A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.
But however happy you are feeling, you can't talk with your mouth full of snow.
The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.
There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.
We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.
The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.
It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.
Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.
You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.