I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
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...
Do not dare not to dare.
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
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.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
He'll be coming and going he had said. One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll oft...
But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to be human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel...
What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other.
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.
You can make anything by writing.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yoursel...
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, in the end, Thy will be done. All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choi...
The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of myth being that it should have no taint of allegory to the maker and yet should
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
It is better to forget about yourself altogether.
In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repair...