205 quotes
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.
Is Theology Poetry? (1945)
God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.
Perelandra (1943)
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
The Problem of Pain (1940)
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.
The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949)
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
The Four Loves (1960)
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
Reflections on the Psalms (1958)
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
God in the Dock (1970)
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
The Problem of Pain (1940)
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.
The Abolition of Man (1943)
"They have an engine called the Press whereby the people are deceived."
That Hideous Strength (1945)
We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
The Abolition of Man (1943)
Who believes in Aslan nowadays?
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950)
It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950)
Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950)
As image and apprehension are in an organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.
God in the Dock (1970)
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
Surprised by Joy (1955)
Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
Mere Christianity (1952)
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
The Problem of Pain (1940)