Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. Votes: 25
Joy is the serious business of Heaven. Votes: 11
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. Votes: 0
this is a book about something Votes: 0
Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold. Votes: 0
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred. Votes: 0
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different... Votes: 0
Badness is only spoiled goodness. Votes: 0
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. Votes: 0
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not. Votes: 0
Love is the great conqueror of lust. Votes: 0
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. Votes: 0
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. Votes: 0
You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. Votes: 0
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence. Votes: 0
Humility is self-forgetfulness. Votes: 0
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. Votes: 0
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. Votes: 0
If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else. Votes: 0
God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians. Votes: 0
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations. Votes: 0
Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. Votes: 0
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation. Votes: 0
Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man? Votes: 0
The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man. Votes: 0
You cannot make men good by law. Votes: 0
He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) Votes: 0
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. Votes: 0
This moment contains all moments. Votes: 0
For Narnia and for Aslan! Votes: 0
The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. Votes: 0
We read to know we are not alone. Votes: 0
We are what we believe we are. Votes: 0
If you are thirsty, come and drink. Votes: 0
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. Votes: 0
Hate obscures all distinctions. Votes: 0
A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation. Votes: 0
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. Votes: 0
Nothing is yet in its true form. Votes: 0
We are what we believe we are! Votes: 0
Divine punishment are also mercies. Votes: 0
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes. Votes: 0
For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being. Votes: 0
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. Votes: 0
Tea should be taken in solitude. Votes: 0
If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain. Votes: 0
Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless. Votes: 0
An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath. Votes: 0
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. Votes: 0
To love is to be vulnerable.... Votes: 0
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Votes: 0
A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through. Votes: 0
It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. Votes: 0
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them. Votes: 0
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. Votes: 0
Obedience is the road to freedom. Votes: 0
I want God, not my idea of God. Votes: 0
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered. Votes: 0
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us. Votes: 0
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. Votes: 0
Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs Votes: 0
We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God. Votes: 0
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death. Votes: 0
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god. Votes: 0
Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality. Votes: 0
Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want Votes: 0
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed. Votes: 0
He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have. Votes: 0
Christianity is a fighting religion. Votes: 0
To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself? Votes: 0
Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting? Votes: 0
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. Votes: 0
If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance. Votes: 0
In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. Votes: 0
Forgiveness does not mean excusing. Votes: 0
Freedom always comes with a price. Votes: 0
Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. Votes: 0
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. Votes: 0
if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one. Votes: 0
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define. Votes: 0
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape. Votes: 0
On the whole, Godâs love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Votes: 0
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift. Votes: 0
Do not dare not to dare. Votes: 0
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting. Votes: 0
Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. Votes: 0
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. Votes: 0
As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul. Votes: 0
Please will you do my job for me. Votes: 0
Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already. Votes: 0
Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. Votes: 0
Selfishness has never been admired. Votes: 0
She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression. Votes: 0
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed. Votes: 0
In our adversity, God shouts to us. Votes: 0
Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through. Votes: 0
Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it. Votes: 0
You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are. Votes: 0
Imagine yourself as a living house. Votes: 0
You can make anything by writing. Votes: 0
Further up and further in! Votes: 0
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. Votes: 0
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good. Votes: 0
If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed. Votes: 0
And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be. Votes: 0
Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget. Votes: 0
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. Votes: 0
Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains. Votes: 0
If you thirst you may drink. Votes: 0
They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each. Votes: 0
Father! Can I box him? Please! Votes: 0
I don't want to hold you hand! Votes: 0
Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac? Votes: 0
Am I lost or just less found? Votes: 0
A world of automata â of creatures that worked like machines â would hardly be worth creating. Votes: 0
Every joy is beyond all others. Votes: 0
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will. Votes: 0
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable. Votes: 0
If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves. Votes: 0
You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did. Votes: 0
They Open A Door And Enter A World Votes: 0
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred. Votes: 0
Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow. Votes: 0
Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. Votes: 0
Man must endure his going hence. Votes: 0
People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs. Votes: 0
To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting. Votes: 0
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally. Votes: 0
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask. Votes: 0
Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. Votes: 0
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible. Votes: 0
Hatred obscures all distinctions. Votes: 0
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. Votes: 0
For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex Votes: 0
The absent are easily refuted. Votes: 0
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal. Votes: 0
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. Votes: 0
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse. Votes: 0
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. Votes: 0
Why should your heart not dance? Votes: 0
Why must holy places be dark places? Votes: 0
I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity. Votes: 0
For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures. Votes: 0
They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it Votes: 0
Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question. Votes: 0
Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers. Votes: 0
The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story. Votes: 0
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements. Votes: 0
The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing. Votes: 0
Miracles are for beginners. Votes: 0
God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard. Votes: 0
Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. Votes: 0
You people have no imagination! Votes: 0
A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion. Votes: 0
First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that. Votes: 0
I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject. Votes: 0
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die. Votes: 0
There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me Votes: 0
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. Votes: 0
To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert. Votes: 0
Prosperity knits a man to the world. Votes: 0
Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm. Votes: 0
Always winter but never Christmas. Votes: 0