A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree...

As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone would expect after being under water. His clothes were perfectly dry. He was standing by the...

Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are...

All joy… emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

We may observe that the teaching of Our Lord Himself, in which there is no imperfection, is not given us in that cut-and-dried, fool-proof, systematic fashion we might have expected or desire. He wrote no...

Getting over it so soon? But the words are ambiguous. To say the patient is getting over it after an operation for appendicitis is one thing; after he’s had his leg off is quite another....

Trebuie să aducem înaintea lui Dumnezeu ceea ce este în noi, nu ceea ce ar trebui să fie.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.

Life at a vile boarding school is in this way a good preparation for the Christian life, that it teaches one to live by hope. Even, in a sense, by faith; for at the beginning...

The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our...

Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)… Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would...

In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.

The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of myth being that it should have no taint of allegory to the maker...

The architects tell us that nothing is great or small save by position.

Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

I felt ashamed.””But of what? Psyche, they hadn’t stripped you naked or anything?””No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal — of being a mortal.””But how could you help that?””Don’t you think the things...

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

In our world,” said Eustace, “a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.”Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

The hard core of morality and even of religion seems to me to be just what makes good comedy possible…Where there is no norm, nothing can be ridiculous, except for a brief moment of unbalanced...

But, first, remember, remember, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in the morning and when you lie down at night, and when you wake in the middle of the night. And...

Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of–something, not to be identified with, but always on the verge of breaking through, the smell of...

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have...

She was beautifully, delicately made,So small, so unafraid,Till the bomb came.Bombs are the same,Beautifully, delicately made.

Don’t think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.

The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try to reproduce it, so far as possible, in his daily life?

What, then, is the difference which He has made to the whole human mass? It is just this; that the business of becoming a son of God, of being turned from a created thing into...

The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us...

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long...

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time–for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with...

It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not...

You are a chap of one idea, aren’t you?

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.

GK Chesterton was not afraid to combine serious Christian themes with buffoonery.

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which FOR US (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring—don’t wait till the last moment before you put on...

If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing....

To say that men and women are equally eligible for a certain profession is to say that for the purposes of that profession their sex is irrelevant. We are, in that context, treating both as...

Don’t be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you’ve been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed...

She turned, and at her turning came a fragrant airOf godhead, and her robe grew long; ambrosial hairFlashed, and a rosy brightness on her neck, and allThe goddess in her going was revealed. His callFollowed...

The command Be ye perfect is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command. He said (in the...

Me refiero al error de hablar y tratar no con el hombre mismo sino con el retrato -casi el – que nos hemos hecho de él in mente. Y tiene que desviarse enormemente de este...

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a...

If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.