Occupation: Novelist Birth: November 29, 1898 Death: November 22, 1963
Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It i….
Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of….
The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality ….
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others..
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth..
Autumn is really the best of the seasons.
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?.
Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters..
He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand..
I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him..
At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take ….
A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food..
Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again..
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thin….
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is..
If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone..
Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say….
But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more pr….
It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men..
When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund.
Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support f….