81 quotes
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
"For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity."
on Philosophy
"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
on Literature
"For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are."
"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
on Writing
"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."
on Faith
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
on Grief
"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."
on Love
"In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."
"In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction."
on Creativity
"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."
on Happiness
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
on Courage
"Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
on Friendship
"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."
"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
on Ambition
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says "All right then have it your way.""
"Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important."
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without milestones without signposts."
"Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither."
