- Quote: “Joy is the serious business of heaven.”
(Source: “Letters to Malcolm” (1964)). - “There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”
(Source: “The Great Divorce” (1945)). - “Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.”
(Source: “Mere Christianity” (1952)). - Jesus Christ did not say, “Go into all the world and tell the world that it is quite right”
(Source: “God In The Dock” (1970)). - “I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”
(Source: “Mere Christianity” (1952)). - “When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.”
(Source: “Mere Christianity” (1952)). - “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
(Source: “God In The Dock” (1970)). - “It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.”
(Source: “The Problem of Pain” (1940)). - “Being in love” first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.
(Source: “Mere Christianity” (1952)). - “This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
(Source: “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” (1952)).