C.S. Lewis

"I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk."

"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."

"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."

"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."

"But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on"concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."

"Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience."

"Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words."

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

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

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

"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."

"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."

"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."

"We are what we believe we are!"

"What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent."

"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."