When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions.

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.