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A man concerned about the state of his soul will not usually be much helped by thinking about the spheres or the structure of the atom.
100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.
The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949)
I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949)
Where we find a difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us. Where there is cover we hope for game.
Reflections on the Psalms (1958)
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.
God in the Dock (1994)
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
The Four Loves (1960)
A man, an adult, is precisely what he [Aeneas] is: Achilles had been little more than a passionate boy.
A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942)
Faith … is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950)
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
To know what would have happened, child? No. Nobody is ever told that.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950)
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are: that good fortune I have enjoyed for nearly twenty years.
They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses (1962)
Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
Foreword to Joy Davidman's Smoke on the Mountain (1954)
I have always — at least, ever since I can remember — had a kind of longing for death.
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)
My form remains one, though the matter in it changes continually. I am, in that respect, like a curve in a waterfall.
Miracles (1947)
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
"Are the gods not just?"
"Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)
Humans are amphibians — half spirit and half animal. . . . As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
The Screwtape Letters (1942)