Mere Christianity
"100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased."
The Weight of Glory
"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later."
The Case for Christianity
"Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed."
The Case for Christianity
"It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men."
Reflections on the Psalms
"Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self..."
"'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'"
"Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it."
"In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige."
"Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self..."
Mere Christianity
"'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'"
Prince Caspian
"Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it."
The World's Last Night
"In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige."
A Preface to Paradise Lost
"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is..."
"The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
Mere Christianity
"The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
The Abolition of Man
"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process."
The Abolition of Man
"It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth."
"The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary colour in the spectrum..."
"Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?"
"'Safe?' said Mr. Beaver...'Who said anything about safe? 'Course he [Aslan] isn't safe. but he's good. He's the King, I tell you.'"
"'When a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.'"
The Problem of Pain
"The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary colour in the spectrum..."
Christian Reflections
"Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?"
Letters to Malcolm
"No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'."
Miracles
"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God."
Letters to Malcolm
"The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance."
Reflections on the Psalms
"Books on psychology or economics or politics are as continuously metaphorical as books of poetry or devotion."
Miracles
"Now that I am a Christian I do not have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable."
Mere Christianity
"We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good."
"Hedonics" Time and Tide
"Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves."
"Notes on the Way" Time and Tide
"History is a story written by the finger of God."
Christian Reflections
"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst."
Reflections on the Psalms
"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning..."
Mere Christianity
"'Safe?' said Mr. Beaver...'Who said anything about safe? 'Course he [Aslan] isn't safe. but he's good. He's the King, I tell you.'"
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
"'When a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.'"
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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