This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle...
The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there i...
I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait ha...
Hell is a state of mind - ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven i...
God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can'...
But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.
As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.
No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces
I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite...
Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct.
Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation bywhich a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. - Screwtape
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in. For that purpose the worst of the rooms (whichever that may be) is, I think, preferable. It is true...
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...
You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.