What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.