At the end of things, The Blessed will say, “We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven.” And the lost will say, “We were always in Hell.” And both will speak truly.
Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you’re not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you’re the one who must decide how you handle it.
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.
Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.
Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
A woman’s heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.
All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.
This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia – in our world they usually don’t talk at all. – The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.