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Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950)
Nothing is yet in its true form.
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)
The long, dull monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather.
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949)
I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.
Surprised by Joy (1955)
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
A Grief Observed (1961)
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
The Problem of Pain (1940)
This is where dreams—dreams, do you understand—come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950)
Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.
Mere Christianity (1952)
A great myth is relevant as long as the predicament of humanity lasts; as long as humanity lasts. It will always work, on those who can receive it, the same catharsis.
Leavis demands moral earnestness; I prefer morality. . . . I'd sooner live among people who don’t cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.
I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.
The Four Loves (1960)
Jove laughed to see
The abyss empeopled, his bliss imparted, the throng that was his and no longer he.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
A Grief Observed (1961)
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
Christian Reflections (1967)
‘Try now to answer my third riddle. By what rule to you tell a copy from an original?’
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
'Who are you? Nobody. Who is Porridge? the most important person there is.'
Surprised by Joy (1955)
He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)