Do not dare not to dare.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which g...
Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.
You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the ex...
We appear to be saying something very important aboutsomething: and actually we are only saying something about our own feelings.
I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought feeling after feeling action after...
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.
Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.
The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.
The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other. Work on that. Bring ful...
Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have...
The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be transitory. In one high bound it has overleaped the massive of our selfhood; it h...
One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you -...
But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.