Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Adventures are never fun while you're having them.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.

Doubtless, by definition, God was Reason itself. But would he also be "reasonable" [...]

Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Nothing is yet in its true form.

We are what we believe we are!

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

A man can’t be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

And when we had talked together for a great time hope returned to me and I rejoiced that I had not killed myself.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.

I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me. Now it matters, and I find I didn't.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.

[...] the greater the love the greater the grief, and the stronger the faith the more savagely will Satan storm its fortress.

Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s.

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger.

You doubt your value. Do not run from who you are.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.

You can make anything by writing.

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 of words.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

But I would never give my heart again to any young creature.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.