Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .
For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people’s...
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation af...
You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without the lot of you!
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.
The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (abov...
God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else--something it never ent...
Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.
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:...
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you, said the Lion.
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.