Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us – an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof ‘God did it’ and ‘I did it’ are both true descriptions.
Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.
The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.
We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.
Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.
The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.
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.