 Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost |
You have gone into the Temple and found Him, as always, there.
Source: from a letter "To A Lady" |
If the universe is so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
Source: The Problem of Pain |
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
Source: The Problem of Pain |
God is not proud. He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.
Source: The Problem of Pain |
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
Source: The Problem of Pain |
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| No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights. |
To be discontinuous from God as I am discontinuous from you would be annihilation.
Source: Letters to Malcolm |
| Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices. |
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.
Source: Mere Christianity |
| History is a story written by the finger of God. |
Where, except in the present, can the Eternal be met?
Source: Christian Reflections |
If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.
Source: Transposition and Other Addresses |
Looking for God--or Heaven--by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.
Source: 'The Seeing Eye', Christian Reflections |
The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
Source: Reflections on the Psalms |
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God.
Source: Letters to Malcolm |
The difference God's timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.
Source: Letters (1 August 1949) |
'Don't you mind him,' said Puddleglum. 'There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan.'
Source: The Silver Chair |
'Then instantly the pale brightness of the mist and the fiery brightness of the Lion rolled themselves together into a swirling glory and gathered themselves up and disappeared.'
Source: The Horse and His Boy |
'Something of God flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.'
Source: 'Scraps', St. James' Magazine |
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not. |
| There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan. |
| Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. |
| He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others-not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. |
| The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him. |
| The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a sunhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the son shines on it. |
| He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. |
| You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will. |
He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
Source: The Weight of Glory. |
| To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God. |
