Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.
The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.
Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.
I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.
They did nothing wrong their time here has ended.
I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.
Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people.
The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that’s new to him.
The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One’s most private wishes, one’s point of view, are the things that have to be changed.
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
Aslan: You doubt your value. Don’t run from who you are.
All get what they want; they do not always like it.
He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.
What do they teach them at these schools?
Surely you know that if a man can’t be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that “suits” him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.
It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.
We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.