Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.