There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason.

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.