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Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

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