The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.