We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve, said Aslan. And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth....
Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.
Things never happen the same way twice.
There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question Do you see the same truth? would be I see nothing and I don't care...
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I...
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word love, and look on things as if man were the centr...
The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim su...
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely...
Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... But, of course, ceasing to be in love need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense — love as distinct...