Badness is only spoiled goodness..

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A ducklin….

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it..

Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one partic….

The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice….

The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that ya….

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we ….

There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of per….

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correc….

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious..

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them..

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery..

Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) gro….

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit..

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death..

We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon ….

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence..

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do..

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of le….

It is always the novice who exaggerates..

The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here..