No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

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.