The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying.

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.