“Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.”
— C. S. Lewis
“On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.”
“Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.”
“When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.”
“I pray because I can’t help myself...”
“Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.”
“Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.”
“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
“Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.”
“If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man’s outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his ‘conversion’ was largely imaginary.”
“Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will ’turn the necessity to glorious gain.”
“But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.”
“Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.”
“Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man’s functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.”
“With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.”
“Prayer does not change God; it changes me.”
“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self – all your wishes and precautions – to Christ.”
“Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
“My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.”
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.”
“All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.”
“In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.”
“The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.”
“God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn’t have to take us in the line. You’re as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He’d ever created.”
“There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.”
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.”
“When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever.”
“Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is.”
“As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.”
“Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.”
“Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
“The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.”
“It’s not a question of God ‘sending’ us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.”
“Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.”
“The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.”
“It’s like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.”
“Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us – an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof ‘God did it’ and ‘I did it’ are both true descriptions.”
“The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.”
“We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, “liked to see young people enjoying themselves” and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, “a good time was had by all.””
“The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.”
“A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn’t take long before everyone knows.”
“In worship, God imparts himself to us.”
“Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I’m not sure that old age isn’t the best part of life.”
“We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.”
“Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.”
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
“We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at once rational and animal.”
“You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.”
“They Open A Door And Enter A World.”
“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”
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