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
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robbe...
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.
Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.
We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character. Here aga...
This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there’s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life.
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line....
I wish I had never been born, she said. What are we born for? For infinite happiness, said the Spirit. You can step out into it at any moment...
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will...
But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, Courage, dear heart, and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her fa...
Always winter but never Christmas.
If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.
Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.
It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives; not because His power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains non...
Make no mistake,' He says, 'if you let me, I will make you perfect. The moment you put yourself in My hands, that is what you are in for. Nothing less, or other, than that. You have free will, and if...
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.
If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.