Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that...
In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.
[God] sees before Him in fact a self-centred, greedy, grumbling, rebellious human animal. But He says "Let us pretend that this is not a mere creature, but our Son. It is like Christ in so far as it i...
He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.
We are what we believe we are!
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
Emeth speaking of Aslan, Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek...And since then, O King...
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
To generalize is to be an idiot," said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities are the lenses with which our intellects have to manage.
The trouble about God is that he is like a person who never acknowledges your letters and so in time you come to the conclusion either that he does not exist or that you have got his address wrong.
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to...
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.