"

It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, ‘You must do this...more

"

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

"

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

"

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

"

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, you...more

"

If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.

"

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this ...more

"

You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes yo...more

"

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been born in God's thought, and then ma...more

"

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have re...more

"

It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of...more

"

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading.

"

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

"

The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.

"

To shrink back from all that can be called Nature into negative spirituality is as if we ran away from horses instead of learning to ride. There is in...more