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.
But, first, remember, remember, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in the morning and when you lie down at night, and when you wake in the middle of the night. And whatever strange...
Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fish.
...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly t...
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which arises between them will very easily pass – may pass in the first half hour – i...
Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time.Are they? said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first - wanting to be the centre - wanting to be God, in fact. That was the sin of Satan: and that was the sin he taught t...
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...
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
Make your choice, adventurous Stranger,Strike the bell and bide the danger,Or wonder, till it drives you mad,What would have followed if you had.