Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.

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

Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing in common except want of a spouse: but there is a great difference between a spouse-to-be and a spouse lost.