This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.
To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.
All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.
The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.
All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.
Most people don’t need to be taught, they need only to be reminded.
Christianity is a fighting religion.
Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on.
Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.
Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to ‘cure’ it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.
I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.
Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
Miracles are for beginners.
One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.
Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can’t see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.
God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.