At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours...
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our sh...
The Fellowship of the Ring is like lightning from a clear sky. . . To say that in it heroic romance, gorgeous, eloquent, and unashamed, has suddenly returned at a period almost pathological in its ant...
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...
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
Nothing is yet in its true form.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.
The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
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.
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
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