Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end..

A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfo….

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 easter….

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling..

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longe….

All get what they want; they do not always like it..

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience..

For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and tastes, and all….

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous..

Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real boo….

Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed on anyone who has writ….

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy..

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without lim….

Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet are put righ….

God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots ….

Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured..

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second not….

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very rea….

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our busi….

If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (….

Man has got to take charge of Man.... Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-….