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It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?
As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.
To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.
Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.
I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.
Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.
There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.
They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.
Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.
It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).
Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.
if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.