If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.

I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.

A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.