When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. – Mrs. Whatsit.
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children’s books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone’s universe.
A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.
I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
Meg, when people don’t know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named.
I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.
Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves...
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.
I don’t understand it any more than you do, but one thing I’ve learned is that you don’t have to understand things for them to be.
The world has been abnormal for so long that we’ve forgotten what it’s like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.