Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

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

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.