Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?