The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.

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

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator