For Narnia and for Aslan!
People shouldn’t call for demons unless they really mean what they say.
Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.
I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say “at last”, I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do – so much have I enjoyed it.
The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.
I think we must attack – wherever we meet it – the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.
To be religious is to have one’s attention fixed on God and on one’s neighbour in relation to God.
I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!
Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I’m not sure that old age isn’t the best part of life.
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.
Total war is the most humane in the long run.
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere “opiate of the people” have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.