If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
That's the worst of girls,' said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. 'They never can carry a map in their heads.' 'That's because our heads have something inside them,' said Lucy.
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
Things never happen the same way twice.
A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.
For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.
Joy is the serious business of heaven.
Courage, dear heart.
To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.