Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.
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But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in my vocabulary...
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We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.
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If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe -no more than the archit...
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They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace."What a curious name!""Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.
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Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duti...
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Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
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In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
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We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any...
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Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases ...
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I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like...
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There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you ...
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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, r...
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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already...
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But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples ...
