Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It….

Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No fu….

As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it ….

For Narnia and for Aslan!.

I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must ….

The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cos….

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity..

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake..

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man w….

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy ….

I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally..

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both..

Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia..

One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time ….

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy..

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for….

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives..

Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it….

You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants you. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out for anything except i….

The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not..