C. S. Lewis

“God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”

“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”

“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”

“You can make anything by writing.”

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

“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.”

“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like...”

“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My t...”

“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."”

“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

“Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you wi...”

“The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.”

“Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.”

“True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.”