205 quotes
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
"Everything" is a subject on which there is not much to be said.
Studies in Words (1960)
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
Surprised by Joy (1955)
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.
Myth Became Fact (1944)
The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Mere Christianity (1952)
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
The Great Divorce (1944)
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. It does involve the belief that God loves man and for his sake became man and died.
Miracles (1947)
If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
The Problem of Pain (1940)
Aim at heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth and you will get neither.
Mere Christianity (1952)
The process of being brought up, however well it is done, cannot fail to offend.
My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may 'conquer' them.
The Abolition of Man (1943)
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950)
He [the child] does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.
On Three Ways of Writing for Children (1952)
A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
Mere Christianity (1952)
Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.
The Great Divorce (1944)
All that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
Mere Christianity (1952)
Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.
Perelandra (1943)