God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say seeing? there are n...
Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.
One last point. Remember that, as I said, the right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge. When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in...
Some ages are lukewarm and complacent, and then it is our business to soothe them yet faster asleep. Other ages, of which the present is one, are unbalanced and prone to faction, and it is our busines...
You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.
The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the...
You can't know, you can only believe - or not.
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till th...
Always winter but never Christmas.
Adventures are never fun while you're having them.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or eve...
The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.
It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn't a strong enough drug now. By writing it all down (all? - no: one thought in a hundred) I believe I get a little outside it. That's how I'd...
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
We read to know we are not alone.