God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
Things never happen the same way twice.
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history – money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery – the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.