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.
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.
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
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...
Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. L...
Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
Getting over it so soon? But the words are ambiguous. To say the patient is getting over it after an operation for appendicitis is one thing; after he’s had his leg off is quite another. After that op...
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?
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 (...
You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.
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....
When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
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.
We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.
To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to lov...