Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning..

I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slave….

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen..

He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is His throne, not his vehicle….

Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marria….

The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own..

Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and o….

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance..

The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and….

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing ev….

The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's m….

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavi….

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you bel….

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love..

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story..

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor….

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they con….

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can..

Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They ….

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come..

Things never happen the same way twice..