As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent.
The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.
On the other hand, if God's moral judgement differs from ours so that our 'black' may be His 'white', we can mean nothing by calling Him good; for to say 'God is good', while asserting that His goodne...
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the...
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
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.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
If you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words:...
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...
To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
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 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...
Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.
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 courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.
And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.