Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.
Knock and it shall be opened.? But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
I desired dragons with a profound desire.
The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.
I was not born to be free – I was born to adore and obey.
Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.
Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!
Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.
How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.
Let’s pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God’s eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician’s Book.