The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it - made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.