[Written in 1948] How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land...
"I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them.
Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.
To the Materialist things like nations, classes, civilizations must be more important than individuals, because the individuals live only seventy odd years each and the group may last for centuries. But to the Christian, individuals are more important, for they live...
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. from Letters to Malcolm-------------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence...
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind. from Mere Christianity
100 percent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.