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C. S. Lewis |
- Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
- Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
- All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
- Has this world been so kind to you that should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
- Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
- A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
- The take of the modern educator is is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- Affection is responsible for nine - tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
- The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
- Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.
- Miracles do not, in face, break the laws of nature.
- I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there.
- You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
- The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
- It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
- Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
- We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
- You don't have a soil. You are a soil. You have a body.
- With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
- The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them ( as he does ) must more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
- We are what we believe we are.
- Eros will have naked bodies; friendship naked personalities.
- 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. ''
- No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
- The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
- Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.
- Faith is the are of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
- An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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