But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.

You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.