Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. Read Summary
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Read Summary
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. Read Summary
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. Read Summary
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. Read Summary
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. Read Summary
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael. Read Summary
What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. Read Summary
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. Read Summary
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. Read Summary
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. Read Summary
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them. Read Summary
'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.' Read Summary
Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. Read Summary
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. Read Summary
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. Read Summary