Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring...
We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen '...
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:...
We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain-not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is...
When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probably never meant them to be that. You and they are di...
My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.
Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you, said the Lion.
We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire,
Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
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.
In speaking of this desire for our own far off country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. I am almost committing an indecency. I am trying to rip open the inconsolable sec...
If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of th...