C. S. Lewis

“Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a pu...”

“Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.”

“Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.”

“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”

“A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.”

“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live ea...”

“'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.”

“Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”

“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”

“With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.”

“An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.”

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

“The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'”

“I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.”

“Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.”

“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”