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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

No tea cup is big enough nor book long enough for me to be satisfied.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is.

No photograph can truly recall the beloved's smile.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

He had never dreamed that the country of which she would make him king (king in name but really a slave) was his own country.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

For all find what they truly seek.

The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

Oh, that? I never thought it was eavesdropping, Aslan. Wasn't it magic?"
"Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths
but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

The adventure was too high, its circumstance too solemn, for any emotion save a severe delight. pg. 31

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

No one ever saw anything more terrible or beautiful. Luckily

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different are the saints.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

Safe? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

Another little portion of the human heritage has been quietly taken from them before they were old enough to understand.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.

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

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

It's so large"
"It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?"
"smaller

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends ...

The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the laws of diminishing returns.

Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

A creature who has kept a planet in its orbit for several billions of years will be able to manage a packing case!

I discovered that the wisdom of the world, and a great deal of its folly also, is to be found in the pages of books. And

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

I know no promise that He will accept a deliberate compromise.

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

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

To love, and to lose what we love, are equally things appointed for our nature. If we cannot bear the second well, that evil is ours.

The more he fears, the more he'll hate.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

This moment contains all moments.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

That's all YOU know,' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

Often pointed out that bright mornings brought on wet afternoons, and that you can't expect good times to last.

He is the self-expression of the Father - what the Father has to say. And there never was a time when He was not saying it.

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

If you funk it, you will find yourself, hours later, in far worse danger. The cowardly thing is also the most dangerous thing. It

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

After all, real things are not simple.

Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the Divine Substance ...

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

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

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.

The fantastic suggestion that he, Curry, might be a bore passed through his mind so swiftly that a second later he had forgotten it forever.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too?

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

The Lion said nothing and Digory knew that he had not told enough.

What God does for us, He does in us.

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem
To be in speech with you.
Since but one voice is heard, it

You remember that wonderful phrase, how Queen Morgan 'set all the country on fire with ladies that were enchantresses.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.

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

I have said that she had no face; but that meant she had a thousand faces

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.