Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.