The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator – to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.
Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.
Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?
But as for Lucy, she was always gay and golden-haired, and all princes in those parts desired her to be their Queen, and her own people called her Queen Lucy the Valiant.
If things are real, they’re there all the time.
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.
You’ll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.
People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.
Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.
Things always work according to their nature.
Pilate was merciful till it became risky.
You die and you die and then you are beyond death.
One always feel better when one has made up one’s mind.
The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.
Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.
No one can say ‘He jests at scars who never felt a wound’ for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.
I know the two great commandments, and I’d better get on with them.
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.