We read to know we are not alone.
The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserab...
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.
I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave...
When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and...
The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.
In our world, said Eustace, a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.
I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (f...
I felt ashamed.But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal.But how could you help that?Don't you think the thing...
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
Revenge loses sight of the end in the means, but it's end is not wholly bad - it wants the evil of the bad man to be to him what it is to everyone else. This is proved by the fact that the avenger wan...
Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we a...
You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you.
We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.
Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of uni...
It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests...
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.