Good and evil increase at compound interest. That’s why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.
The Scotch catechism says that man’s chief end is ‘to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.’ But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.
Imagine yourself as a living house.
A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.
Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.
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.”
Kids like us don’t often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.
She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then – Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.
I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be...
His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.
It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day – only the shadows were rather confusing.
Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.
The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.
No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten PM on the second Saturdays.
For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.
A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.
And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.
And that’s why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn’t come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.
Oh, Lor!? said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn’t a bad sort.