The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
Son,'he said,' ye cannot in your present state understand eternity...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, No future bliss can make up for it, not knowing that Heave...
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of...
No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drai...
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in...
I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all...
I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man's actions but not hate the bad man: or, as they would say, hate the sin but not the sinner. ...I used to think this a silly...
I daren't come and drink, said Jill. Then you will die of thirst, said the Lion.Oh dear! said Jill, coming another step nearer.I suppose I must go and look for another stream then.There is no other st...
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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.
Adventures are never fun while you're having them.
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.
If individuals live only seventy years, then a state, or a nation, or a civilisation, which may last for a thousand years, is more important than an individual. But if Christianity is true, then the i...
Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mista...
I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (...
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.