C. S. Lewis

“Courage, dearheart”

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair...”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“Nothing is yet in its true form.”

“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.”

“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you wil...”

“An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open o...”

“The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. IT is the instrument by which God reveals to each the beauties of all the others. They are no...”

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies....”

“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”

“The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.”

“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”

“For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. I believe that m...”

“If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it.”

“An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [sp...”

“I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.”

“Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means...”

“The death of a beloved is an amputation.”

“They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?”

“My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.”