C. S. Lewis

“Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.”

“A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.”

“We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.”

“Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God i...”

“It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.”

“In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallib...”

“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.”

“If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”

“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”

“I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion...”

“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”

“Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we...”

“In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.”

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

“It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.”

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should n...”

“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are...”

“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”

“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting f...”

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”