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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Mere Christianity (1952)
"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."
Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.
A Grief Observed (1961)
Yes, it is strange that anyone should dislike cats. But cats themselves are the worst offenders in this respect. They very seldom seem to like one another.
This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.”
A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere . . . God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
Surprised by Joy (1955)
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
The Four Loves (1960)
But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
Surprised by Joy (1955)
If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
There is no spiritual sustenance in flat equality.
Equality (1943)
Die before you Die. There is no chance after.
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
Mere Christianity (1952)
I hope, said the third, that your wanderings in lonely places do not mean that you have any of the romantic virus still in your blood. His name was Mr. Humanist.
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
Mere Christianity (1952)
Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..."
The Four Loves (1960)
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
The Four Loves (1960)
The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements.
God in the Dock (1970)
He lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another.