It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignora...
Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the Professor’s mysterious old house. At first, her brothers and sister don’t believe her when she tells of her visit to the land of Narnia. But...
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...
My dear young lady,' said the professor...'there is one plan which no one has yet suggested and which is well worth trying.''What's that?' said Susan.'We might all try minding our own business...
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the life of Christ. If we do, we shall then be sharing a life which was begotten, not ma...
Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get there at all. It'll happen when you're not looking for it. And don't talk too...
One word, Ma'am, he said, coming back from the fire; limping, because of the pain. One word. All you've been saying is quite right, I shouldn't wonder. I'm a chap who always liked to know the worst an...
Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well eno...
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.
That's the worst of girls, said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. They never can carry a map in their heads. That's because our heads have something inside them, said Lucy.
The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.
The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
The second glimpse came through Squirrel Nutkin; through it only, though I loved all the Beatrix Potter books. But the rest of them were merely entertaining; it administered the shock, it was a troubl...
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
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